Sheet Music for Strings

Edited from the original edition

The Amadeus Verlag is endeavoring to present all eleven of Romberg's quartets, not least in order to give special recognition to works with a virtuoso cello part, also on the concert podiums. Edited f...

Especially this G minor quartet as a prelude to the series of three op. 25 is excellently suited as an introduction to the cello-dominated compositional scheme of the master cellist Romberg. Edited fr...

Edited from the First Edition.

Edited from the First Edition.

Edited from the First Edition.

Edited from the First Edition.

Edited from the First Edition.

Edited from the First Edition.

First Edition

First Edition

Edited from the First Edition.

First Edition Edited from the autograph.

First Edition

According to Stamitz, Hofmann was the 'only one who in the movement has endeavored to give the flute traverso the lightness and the song', 'this with seriousness and complaisance'.

An Allegro molto in free form is followed by a three-part Andante. The lively Scherzo (Molto vivace) is followed by a Presto finale, which is also interrupted by a Tempo di marcia funebre in polyphoni...

Edited from the first Edition.

Edited from the First Edition.

Edited from the First Edition

The introductory sonorous Andante is in a free form. The 2nd movement of the trio comprises 10 strict as well as free variations on the Guggisberger Lied. A spirited finale concludes the playful trio.

The quintet is a contrapuntal cabinet piece of the finest quality. The technically less demanding work is also excellently suited for string orchestra. Effective!

While in the 1st movement surprising modulations characterize the playing dominated by the 1st violin, in the slow movement the very colorfully harmonized lyrical melodicism surprises, while in the bu...

First Edition Edited from the autograph.

Edited from the first edition.

The Third String Quartet was composed in Winterthur in 1879.The autograph, long thought lost, has only recently reappeared. A review after a performance in 1911 found that the quartet could also be pl...