Sheet Music for Strings

Blake was a violist. His duos sparkle with melodic-thematic refinement, with which he was able to cultivate the specific playing technique of the viola.

Fiala's works, schooled in Haydn, offer melodic sweetness, clean movement with fine dynamic shading, as may be audibly recreated in our viola quartet, bathed in a 'deeper warm tonal language'.

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Joseph Haydn's only string quintet with 2 violas is a musical delicacy of the best provenance. The concise movements shine with capricious interplay and melodic sweetness between violins and violas in...

The duos are worth studying for their brilliant technical playing, as they need not fear comparison with the duos of the same instrumentation by a Carl Stamitz, Franz Danzi and Wenzel Pichl.

In this Duetto, the double bass is so high that it can be performed comfortably on a violoncello or viola da gamba. Unlike in three of Sperger's other sonatas, the viola here is completely equal.

Bazzini's 5 quartets, written in classical formal rigor and coupled with the romanticizing 'Italianita', still indulge in virtuoso attitude, with modest technical playing requirements.

First Edition

First Edition

The Variazioni captivate with virtuoso capers in the alternation between triad and chromaticism in the 'expanded' tonal framework. The technically demanding 'superstructure' never becomes an end in it...

In this 'program' quintet Neukomm was obviously inspired by experienced folklore of rural Switzerland and exaggerated it in kaleidoscopically changing scenes to form-perfect miniatures with varying 's...

The original Allegro opening movement of the E-flat major trio, discarded by Hummel as 'not valid' in the manuscript, may be considered a significant discovery for violists and is published here in th...

First Edition

First Edition

This 9th quartet deserves the crown: the mixture of dramatic attiude and enchanting melodic violin to the point of sentimentality serves the bel canto in an inimitable way. Predestined for the prelude...

First edition

Edited from the first edition.

The F-major work captivates the listener with a perfectly formed mixture of a stirring movement set in a stylistically confident manner and the opera composer's great art of exploiting cantabile to th...

In Bergamo, his native city, where Donizetti learned to admire the masterpieces of the Viennese classics as a 'violist', it required him to emulate the style of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, which he s...

Edited from the original edition

Edited from the original edition