Classical Sheet Music for String Ensemble

First Edition

This 9th quartet deserves the crown: the mixture of dramatic attiude and enchanting melodic violin to the point of sentimentality serves the bel canto in an inimitable way. Predestined for the prelude...

Edited from the first edition.

The F-major work captivates the listener with a perfectly formed mixture of a stirring movement set in a stylistically confident manner and the opera composer's great art of exploiting cantabile to th...

In Bergamo, his native city, where Donizetti learned to admire the masterpieces of the Viennese classics as a 'violist', it required him to emulate the style of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, which he s...

Edited from the original edition

Edited from the original edition

The Amadeus Verlag is endeavoring to present all eleven of Romberg's quartets, not least in order to give special recognition to works with a virtuoso cello part, also on the concert podiums. Edited f...

Edited from the First Edition.

Edited from the First Edition.

First Edition Edited from the autograph.

First Edition

According to Stamitz, Hofmann was the 'only one who in the movement has endeavored to give the flute traverso the lightness and the song', 'this with seriousness and complaisance'.

Edited from the First Edition.

The unusually short Suite in just four movements Allegretto - Menuetto - Gavotte - Courante. Presto is both brilliantly written for the two instruments and very entertaining.

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...

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

Edited from the First Edition.

Edited from the First Edition.

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!

First Edition

These gems of early classical quartet art are now available again for the first time as a complete edition, with the 'discovery' of a 7th quartet. Required reading!

First Edition