Classical Sheet Music for String Ensemble

While in the 1st movement surprising modulations characterize the playing dominated by the 1st violin, in the slow movement the very colorfully harmonized lyrical melodicism surprises, while in the bu...

First Edition Edited from the autograph.

Edited from the first edition.

The Third String Quartet was composed in Winterthur in 1879.The autograph, long thought lost, has only recently reappeared. A review after a performance in 1911 found that the quartet could also be pl...

Edited from the undated first print of the parts from c. 1835.

Edited from the First Edition.

Who would want to do without the quartets of the Italian? From intoxicating bel canto to playful drama, owed to the never-ending bufforesque arias of his operas, everything is offered that makes a qua...

Edited from the first edition

First Edition

Mattheson on Telemann: His 'violin pieces, which are set in such a way that each part stands out at a certain time and plays, as it were, in competition with the other voices'. A social composer!

Edited from the First Edition

Edited from the autograph First Edition

First Edition

First Edition

The Swiss Kruse became known as a composer of the cabaret 'Die Pfeffermühle', the 'Cornichon' and the Düsseldorf 'Kom(m)ödchen'.

Bernhard Romberg's op.38 is a stroke of luck for all cellists. The never-ending singing of the soloist experiences a virtuoso climax in the 3rd Trio: At its finest.

The piece, still entirely rococo, became a favorite of many violists who managed to secure a double bassist as a 'contrapuntal' accompanist.