Intermediate Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

1936 was Hans Winterberg's most fruitful creative year before the catastrophe that befell Czechoslovakia with the annexation of the Sudeten territories in 1938 and the "rest of Czechoslovakia" in 1939...

Hans Winterberg's 2nd String Quartet from 1942 is one of the few works that he was able to compose under unimaginable living conditions during the period of Nazi terror in Czechoslovakia. In that year...

Each of the four string quartets by the Bohemian composer Hans Winterberg (1901-1991) has its own unusual history. The first, composed in happy times in Prague in 1936, had to wait until 2024 for its...

Hans Winterberg's four string quartets were composed over a period of four decades between 1936 and 1961 and reflect the four stages of his eventful biography. He composed the first in what were proba...

Composed in 2007, this 25-minute work was commissioned by Southbank Centre for its Associate Artists, the Takács Quartet. A major addition to the contemporary string quartet repertory, the San Francis...

Composed in 1988 and revised in 1991, this 28-minute work was commissioned by the University of Glasgow's McEwen Bequest. The composer stated in 1991, \"My first string quartet, Visions of a November...

Etwas zurückhaltend was written in 1982 when the composer was a student at the University of Durham. The piece was forgotten until 2009, when MacMillan realised that much within its ideas seemed curre...