Sheet Music for String Instruments

Edited from the first edition.

Edited from the first edition

The movements, still largely in the classical-early Romantic style, captivate with multifaceted viola-specific layered playing. Easy to moderately difficult.

These are lovable, playful genre pieces that serve musical entertainment in the best sense of the word. Highly recommended as an encore.

First Edition

The 'Deux Morceaux' may be counted among the showpieces of tone-painting program music, which should be welcome to all violists thanks to their noble technical and humorous refinement.

With its romantic, at times impetuous tonal color, in which the formal skill of the thematic development is clearly expressed, as well as its technical brilliance, it combines everything a violist cou...

Praised throughout his life as a master of polyphonic compositional technique, the chamber music of Friedrich Kiel, who was held in high esteem by Brahms, features a romantic, powerful linear formal c...

The melodic invention may be distantly modeled on Schumann's 'fairy tale pictures', but it captivates with sweeping rhapsodic elements characteristically found in the Romance.

The Elegy, written in the classical-romantic style, hardly fails to make an impact as an encore piece: easy to perform, it is indebted to the viola's tonal register.

A brilliant performance piece, which offers violists the opportunity to show off the entire tonal spectrum of their instrument. Early Romantic flair pervades all the movements.

First Edition

Edited from the first edition

Edited from the First Edition.

Edited from the First Edition.

Edited from the First Edition.

First Edition

One of the newly discovered treasures of the Berlin Sing-Academy is the viola sonata in F major by Franz Benda, published here for the first time.

Edited from the first Edition.

Inspired by the treasure of 'European love songs', the composer created a chamber-musical enchanting finely chiseled miniature, embedded in 'contemporary sounds'.

Onslow's viola sonatas deserve to be brought back into the repertoire. Technically not overly difficult, their Biedermeier melos exudes melodiousness and esprit.

Each of the 3 viola sonatas are among the pieces from which contemporaries expected a 'profoundly exciting alternation of pain and joy, of sadness and cheerfulness'.

Onslow's 3 viola sonatas are always distinguished. They want to entertain in the most amiable way, offer dialogues on a high compositional level.