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Gabriel Faurés einziges Streichquartett, entstanden in den Jahren 1923 bis 1924, ist das letzte Werk des Komponisten und wurde von seinem Verleger Jacques Durand angeregt. Fauré hatte bis dahin die Au...

Immerse yourself in the warm, resonant world of the Romantic era: The Sextet in B-flat major, Op. 18 is a radiant masterpiece of chamber music. Scored for two violins, two violas, and two cellos, this...

César Franck vollendete sein Streichquartett im Frühjahr 1890, im gleichen Jahr wurde es auch erstmalig aufgeführt und kurz vor seinem Tod im Oktober veröffentlicht. Zusammen mit der 'Association Inte...

When Antonín Dvorák started composing his String Quartet No. 10 in late 1878, none of his quartets had yet been performed. However this new work, deliberately cast in the 'Slavonic' style, quickly ach...

Dvorák composed his twelfth string quartet in F major op. 96, known as the “American” Quartet, in just twelve days during his summer vacation in Spillville, Iowa in June 1893. This immensely uplifting...

Dvorák composed his ambitious String Quartet in C major op. 61 in the autumn of 1881 on behalf of Joseph Hellmesberger Sr., concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic and first violinist of the Hellmesb...

Ludwig van Beethoven's overpowering legacy caused many subsequent composers to avoid writing string quartets at all. Saint-Saëns was no exception in this respect and waited until 1899 and 1918 to prod...

Beethoven was almost thirty years old when he ventured to compose a string quartet for the first time. Could he have been intimidated by the influential models of this young genre of Haydn and Mozart?...

Violine (2), Viola, Violoncello - Studienpartitur; Urtextausgabe

> Urtext edition at the cutting edge of scholarship, with detailed separate Critical Commentary (Eng) > Parts ideally laid out for performance purposes This new scholarly-critical edition of String Qu...

Many anecdotes surround String Quartet op. 131: Beethoven is said to have considered it to be his finest quartet and of his late period works, the one dearest to his heart. It is also believed that th...

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...

The String Quartet op. 127 marks the beginning of a series of five works in this genre, which Ludwig van Beethoven predominantly occupied himself with during the last years of his life and after sever...

To celebrate the 200th birthday of the playwright Ludvig Holberg, a statue was erected in his honour in 1884. Edvard Grieg, who, like Holberg, was born in Bergen, was commissioned to write an open-air...

François Emmanuel Joseph Bazin was born in Marseille in 1816 and died in Paris in 1878. He entered the Conservatory of Music in Paris in 1836 and studied composition and harmony with Henri-Montan Bert...

Sibelius composed the orchestral version of Höstkväll in 1904 for the soprano Aino Ackté (1876-1944) in a German translation by Ferdinand Tilgmann. The date of the premiere itself is not known, but an...

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The serenade flourished in Mozart’s era, but with Brahms the genre experienced a new surge in popularity in the 19th century. Dvořák’s cheerful and relaxed op. 22 came into being in 1875, during a ver...

Elgar’s Serenade for Strings was composed in 1892 and represents the first of his works with which the 35-year-old composer was truly satisfied. Whether, as often claimed, it derives from three pieces...

The occasion for the composition, described as a “suite in the old style”, was the 200th birthday of the Norwegian-Danish poet Ludvik Holberg (1684–1754), which was celebrated in Bergen with several f...