Sheet Music Downloads for Strings

World premiere on June 7, 1981 in New York, Carnegie Hall: Thouvenel Quartet (Eugene Purdue, Teresa Fream, Sally Chisholm, Jeffrey Levenson)

World premiere on January 26, 1993 in New York: An ensemble of the Juillard School

World premiere on November 4, 1983 in Hamburg. Auryn Quartet - Matthias Lingenfelder (1st violin), Jens Oppermann (2nd violin), Steuart Eaton (viola), Andreas Arndt (violoncello)

World premiere on October 12, 1984 in Hamburg, Opera stabile: Leonardo-Quartett Köln

World premiere of the first version on January 28, 1993 in Linz, ORF concert at the Landesstudio Oberösterreich: Bruckner Quartet (Heinz Haunold, Mario Seriakov, Walter Haas, Elisabeth Bauer)

Gabriel Fauré's only string quartet, composed between 1923 and 1924, is the composer's last work and was inspired by his publisher Jacques Durand. Until then, Fauré had obviously repeatedly put off ta...

String quartet - Urtext edition; set of parts

The new scholarly-critical edition of the String Quartet op. 127, the first of Beethoven's late quartets, follows the Urtext editions of the quartets op. 18, 59, 74 and 95 already published by Bärenre...

There are many anecdotes surrounding the String Quartet op. 131: Beethoven described it as his best work; looking back on the works of his last creative period, this string quartet was closest to his...

After years of several personal and creative crises, the last two years of Beethoven's life were marked by an irrepressible creative urge that was directed almost exclusively towards the string quarte...

Beethoven worked on his String Quartet in F major op. 135 in Gneixendorf near Krems, where he hoped to recover with his nephew Karl from his failed suicide attempt in the summer of 1826. The work stan...

Christopher Hogwood's new edition of Elgar's popular Serenade is the first scholarly-critical edition of this work. As with other compositions by Elgar, the previous editions of the Serenade are notab...

George Speckert has made a name for himself with simple but sonorous arrangements for mixed string groups. With Native American songs from various tribes, his new edition takes "young" string quartets...

Maurice Ravel's only composition for string quartet - it dates from 1903 - is today regarded as one of the most important, most frequently performed and recorded chamber music works of all time. Edito...