Intermediate Sheet Music for String Ensemble

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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...

Hans Winterberg's Streichtrio from 1960 is one of the composer's most substantial chamber music works. On the one hand, he achieves a fascinating symbiosis of the most important tendencies of German-A...

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...

Brother is an intimate duet for violin and viola in four movements. Throughout the piece the two instruments are very closely intertwined. Their colours fuse and coalesce. Together they weave patterns...

New incidental music was required for a performance of William Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado about Nothing in the Schönbrunn Schloßtheater in Vienna in 1920. Erich Wolfgang Korngold had already compos...

Like in his Kaz Da?lar? Sonat? (Mount Ida Sonata) (VLB 225) and in Yürüyen Kö?k (The Shifted House) (ED 22893), Say would also like to draw attention to the need to protect the habitats of animals in...

For my first string quartet, I found it important to compose a piece with a light and entertaining character which simultaneously possesses a ‘profound level’ – this dichotomy is what fascinates me in...

2 Violins, 1 Viola, 1 Cello, 1 Contrabass

Erste Spielausgabe des bisher unveröffentlichten Streichquartetts. 'Noch nie ist mir in Musik vor Wagner und Liszt (Fanny starb 9 Jahre vor der Vollendung von Wagners 'Tristan und Isolde') eine derart...

When Dvořák suddenly became internationally famous in 1878 with his Slavonic Dances, he received, among other things, a request for a new string quartet from Jean Becker, the first violinist of the re...

Composed in autumn of 1881, Opus 61 is the last of Dvořák's 'middle' quartets by chronology for which Beethoven and Schubert served as the most significant models. Beethoven's influence, from thematic...

The music world associates Verdi's name so obviously with his operatic output that his contributions to other genres can easily be overlooked. His only chamber work owes its existence to an enforced b...

Hymn for violin and cello was commissioned by violinist Edna Mishell for her international musical project 'Compassion Through Music' which was dedicated to the memory of Yehudi Menuhin. The main idea...

The Belgian composer, conductor and violinist Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931) studied with H. Wieniawsky in Brussels and took numerous trips as a soloist, particularly to the USA where he worked as a conduct...

1963, im selben Jahr wie sein lebensfrohes Concerto da Camera für Klavier, Bläser und Schlagzeug entstanden, zählt Laks' 5. Streichquartett zu seinen musikalisch anspruchsvollsten Kompositionen, in de...