Sheet Music for Strings

Die Partitur-Manuskripte der hier zum erstenmal publizierten Streichquartette Nr. 20 C-Dur und Nr. 28 As-Dur gehören der Heinemann Foundation Collection der Library of Congress in Washington. Das 20....

First Edition

According to Boccherini's autograph catalog of works : op.47, 'opera piccola', from 1793.

with facsimile of the autograph score

The 3 duos belong to the best that is available from the high classical period in this instrumentation, also in this transfer to the flute (instead of violin). The same duos are also published for 'fl...

A string trio that bears strong Romantic traits while paying tribute to the linear movement always desired by the author. The melodically simple pastourelle contrasts consciously.

Score: facsimile of the autograph.

The works of Schneider, who worked in the Royal Chapel in Berlin, reveal a preference for the soloistic use of the viola, which he knew how to employ in four tuplets.

The forms of the linear Inventiones are heightened to the monumental via cadential overtones in the double fugue, whose head theme captures the author's name 'A-es-c-h-b-a-c-h-e-(t)r.'.

After the Adagio for 2 clarinets and 3 basset-horns

Completed and edited by Franz Beyer.