Classical Music for String Quartet

What says "holiday season" more than the wonderfully familiar music from "The Nutcracker"? This lovely suite from the famous ballet includes: Overture; March; Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy; Trepak; Ar...

This collection includes: Te Deum (Charpentier); Bist Du Bei Mir (Bach); If With All Your Hearts (from "Elijah," Mendelssohn); My Heart Ever Faithful (Bach); Meditation from "Thais" (Massenet); Ave Ma...

Some of the best loved operatic tunes are featured in this collection arranged by Lynne Latham. Ideal for the advanced quartet, players will find performances of these Opera Favorites fulfilling and e...

Some of the best loved operatic tunes are featured in this collection arranged by Lynne Latham. Ideal for the advanced quartet, players will find performances of these Opera Favorites fulfilling and e...

Perfect for reception music or a high school quartet, this suite exudes latin flavor. Movements: 1. Tango, 2. Andante, 3. Nocturne, 4. Rondeau.

This compilation of ten pieces from Baroque masterwork composers Handel, Gluck, and Clarke is an excellent addition to any performer's reperoire collection. Featuring popular selections from the Baroq...

Carole Neuen-Rabinowitz has selected some of the most memorable tunes from the operatic repertoire in this collection for string quartet. Written at an advanced intermediate level, good high school pl...

Carole Neuen-Rabinowitz has selected some of the most memorable tunes from the operatic repertoire in this collection for string quartet. Written at an advanced intermediate level, good high school pl...

Settings of Debussy's most popular works, moderately difficult (Violin 1 to 5th position). Contents: Clair de Lune; Arabesque #2; Romance; Girl with the Flaxen Hair; and Golliwog's Cakewalk.

Don't let this title fool you...this collection of ten meditative preludes is useful for more than just weddings. For service introits, communion gatherings, memorials, funerals or prayer interludes t...

Finally a clean, modern edition of six quartets by the Chevalier de Saint-Georges (Joseph Bologne) clearly edited with bowings and fingerings by Endre Granat. These early works fit stylistically in th...

Alban Berg's (1885-1935) String Quartet, Op. 3, was written in 1910, though it would remain unpublished for another ten years. In two movements, it is among Berg's most original compositions and is co...

Anne Boyd 's String Quartet No. 3 was commissioned for Musica Viva Australia by Geoff Stearn. It was premiered by Orava String Quartet, Huntington Estate Music Festival, 29th November 2015. This work...

Anne Boyd 's String Quartet No. 3 was commissioned for Musica Viva Australia by Geoff Stearn. It was premiered by Orava String Quartet, Huntington Estate Music Festival, 29th November 2015. This work...

Molto appassionato, think of Argentina! Kalevi Aho wrote Tango 60 for string quartet (2012) in order to celebrate his sister's 60th birthday.

Kimmo Hakola's String Quartet No. 4 op. 95 (2016) was commissioned by the Kimito Island Music Finland and it's dedicated to the Meta4 Quartet. In composer's words, it is "the floundering, playful, if...

Alex Freeman found initial inspiration for his string quartet (2015) in a series of photographs a geologist friend showed him of en échelon veins in rock formations. The open strings punctuated with p...

Timo Alakotila's La cantina (String quartet no. 3, 2013) was commissioned by a distinguished Finnish string quartet Kamus. The title of the quartet in four movements was inspired by the ongoing renova...

Kalevi Aho composed a shimmering six-minute journey for string quartet under the title Sumussa ("In the fog", 2023). It was premiered by Tempera Quartet at Kaustinen Chamber Music Week in January 2024...

Esa Pietilä's Icons of Blue, Black & Sun (String quartet no. 2) was composed in 2022 and premiered by SKATTA String Quartet. Three icons in three colours is an association of colours and the state of...

Renewed string parts (2025) with a study score! Erkki-Sven Tüür (b. 1959) dedicated his String quartet (1985) dedicated to the memory of his friend, the Estonian actor Urmas Kibuspuu (1953-1985). The...

Kalevi Aho's (b. 1949) second string quartet dates from February 1970, when he was in his second year as a student of Eino-Juhani Rautavaara at the Sibelius Academy. Its premiere in the debut concert...

Kalevi Aho's (b. 1949) String quartet no. 3 (1971) comprises eight short sections played in a single movement without pause and is strictly linear in character. The work begins, in all simplicity, wit...

Ein Divertimento im besten Sinn ist dieses Frühwerk des späteren Dadaisten und Komponisten des Kommunistischen Manifests. Es verbindet bei nicht zu hohem Schwierigkeitsgrad Spielfreude und Klangsinnli...