Sheet Music for Strings

Mit dem hier vorliegenden Streichquartett in c-Moll bewarb sich Max Bruch 1852 mit Erfolg um ein Stipendium der Frankfurter Mozart-Stiftung. Lange Zeit galt es als verschollen und wurde erst 2013 von...

1871 komponierte Peter Tschaikowski sein erstes Streichquartett op. 11 D-Dur. Im Laufe der Zeit ist der zweite Satz des ersten Streichquartetts, das 'Andante cantabile' zu einem der beliebsteten Werke...

1871 komponierte Tschaikowski die 'Deux Pieces, op. 10' für Klavier. Im zweiten Stück, der 'Humoresque' verwendete er im Mittelsatz das französische Lied 'La fille aux oranges' aus dem Mittelalter, we...

2 Violins, 1 Viola, 1 Cello, 1 Contrabass

Instruments: String Quartet: 2 Violins 1 Alto 1 Cello - Difficuly Level: Grade 3 - Duration: 1 mn 40 - Musical Style: Classical - Category: Arrangement - Composer: Marc-Antoine CHARPENTIER - Arranger:...

Erste Spielausgabe des bisher unveröffentlichten Streichquartetts. 'Noch nie ist mir in Musik vor Wagner und Liszt (Fanny starb 9 Jahre vor der Vollendung von Wagners 'Tristan und Isolde') eine derart...

La Guerres Violinsonaten gehören zu den ersten französischen Werken dieser Gattung. Sie zeigen Charakte­ristisches für den Sonatenstil der Komponistin: eine Vielzahl von Sätzen (bis zu 8 Sätze) unters...

Das Quartett Nr. 1 in Es-Dur zeigt, dass sie sich auch in Bezug auf die musikalische Qualität nicht hinter den frühen Werken dieser anerkannten Meister verstecken muss. Auch das zweite der sechs Quart...

When Dvořák suddenly became internationally famous in 1878 with his Slavonic Dances, he received, among other things, a request for a new string quartet from Jean Becker, the first violinist of the re...

In autumn 1895, after returning from New York once and for all, Dvorák took up his former position as teacher at the Prague Conservatory. This clearly had an inspiring impact on him because in the spa...

The Sextet in B-flat major was already judged to be 'one of the most beautiful works by this young composer' after its initial performances in early 1861. It was popular with both public and press, an...

Redolent of the work of Dmitri Shostakovich in its musical language, Evgeny Kissin's String Quartet op. 3 comprises four strongly contrasting movements: on the heels of the stately 'Adagio liberamente...

In 1919-20 George Gershwin was making a name for himself with Broadway songs and a first show of his own in New York. But he was already attracted to the world of classical music - a world he would en...

Dvorák composed his Terzetto op. 74 in 1887 as the result of a spontaneous desire to write some domestic music. Inspired by neighbourhood violin lessons, he wrote these four little movements for two v...

Alexander Zemlinsky's music was long unjustly overshadowed by what was regarded as the 'more progressive' Second Viennese School. Although Zemlinsky was close friends with its protagonist Arnold Schön...

Although Dvorak's stay in America (1892-95) was very successful, the composer suffered a good deal from homesickness. He had begun the string quartet in A flat major in New York, but continued with it...

Composed in autumn of 1881, Opus 61 is the last of Dvořák's 'middle' quartets by chronology for which Beethoven and Schubert served as the most significant models. Beethoven's influence, from thematic...

Béla Bartók's six string quartets, composed between 1908 and 1940, are 20th-century milestones of the genre. His First String Quartet is closely linked to his unhappy love for the violinist Stefi Geye...

Bartók's Second String Quartet was composed - with several long interruptions - between 1915 and 1918, after he had spent several years almost solely devoted to collecting folk music. The melody and r...

The String Quartet no. 3 is the shortest of Béla Bartók's six Quartets, and was also composed in a remarkably short time. He wrote the score in September 1927, and in the following December it won him...

Even before his String Quartet no. 3 appeared in print in 1929, Bartók was already working on a fourth in the summer of 1928. This five-movement work is arranged symmetrically around a highly expressi...