String Ensemble Sheet Music Downloads

Mansurjan's String Quartet No. 1 (1983-84) takes us 'on the long road of simplicity, on a wonderful journey during which the question whether this music is new or old can be answered very soon: It is...

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...

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...

This publication gathers together three miniatures for string quartet, all composed 'in memoriam' a particular individual. Memento (4 minutes) was written in memory of the composer's friend, David Hun...

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 S...

Commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and first performed there in 2018 by the Zebra Trio: Ernst Kovacic (violin), Steven Dann (viola) and Anssi Karttunen (cello). Maguey de tlalcoyote i...

Commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and first performed there in 2018 by the Zebra Trio: Ernst Kovacic (violin), Steven Dann (viola) and Anssi Karttunen (cello). Maguey de tlalcoyote i...

Adagio con Sordino is the version for string quartet of an instrumental interlude from the vocal cycle Les Fleurs du Mal - Twelve Songs and Dances inspired by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, composed by Vl...

At the Foot of the Hafursey Mountains by Ewen Cousin is directly inspired by the Icelandic landscapes - vast, mineral and characterized by silence - which become the starting point for musical reflect...

This string quartet was written at the request of the Sebastian String Quartet. These musical postcards express the composer's deep and intimate feelings for the beautiful places on Earth. Boston Blu...

The idea came to me suddenly: It would be Undine or Ophelia, in any case with a connection to water. When I reread the two stories, I decided on Shakespeare's heroine Ophelia, a touching portrayal of...

The Fantasia was commissioned by the Terezin Music Foundation in 2003. The term 'virtual', borrowed from contemporary cyberspace usage, refers to the fact that the choral is not really there - that is...

The brevity of my Quatuor No. 1, op. 60 and the little piece Alligun were probably the incentive to undertake the composition of a more extensive string quartet at an advanced age. It seemed urgent to...

string quartet and narrator (ad lib.)