Classical Sheet Music for String Ensemble

The music of small forms was to become the focus of the French composer Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924). In 1874, after many years spent in the 'provinces', the teacher of Camille Saint-Saëns took the posit...

Experience a chamber music work of extraordinary expressive power: '...und wenn wir uns mitten im Leben meinen...', subtitled 'Torso for 2 Violins and Piano', unfolds a profound sonic dialogue full of...

String Quartet No. 2 – Lion’s Teeth by Sebastian Hilli unfolds an expressive world of sound that thrives on contrasts. Inspired by the origin of the word dandelion – dent de lion, the "lion’s tooth" –...

The String Trio of 1927 was composed several years after Paul Dessau's first major success as a composer, which was marked by the prizewinning Concertino in 1924. After working for several years as a...

With the 4th String Quartet, Op. 22, Paul Hindemith opens up new realms of expression and develops his art of quartet writing with unwavering consistency. In five contrasting movements, the work combi...

This arrangement was created out of great admiration for the incredible abilities of the "child prodigy" Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who was only 19 years old at the time of composition. Reducing such a...

Washing up flower smells don't drink the soap it'll make you sick. Gunge odours and lucid states of decay. Do you choose? Will you loose the space around you? Super-Munch them 1 by 1 on the library co...

Duo Concertante contains five brief movements of contrasting character. The first movement functions as a short prelude, with the viola and bass combining to form alternating high and low harmonies an...

L’esprit du Nord, for string quartet, was inspired by and is infused with French-Canadian folk song. Each of the three movements uses a folk song as its basis. The first movement, Chanson de Lisette,...

Following the première of my opera An American Tragedy at the Metropolitan Opera, the President of the Manhattan School of Music, Robert Sirota, called me and told me that the American String Quartet...