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Il quartetto d'archi "Steps and Dances" è un tentativo di esprimere il linguaggio del corpo umano attraverso la musica: passi timidi e corse rapide, movimenti di danza e ondeggiamenti devoti, amore ap...

The years from 1935 to 1950 were difficult ones for Elliot Carter. Wide recognition came only in 1951, when he was forty-three, with this work The First String Quartet. This work features diversified...

This work won the composer the Pulitzer Prize in 1969.

Schoenberg composed his Fourth String Quartet, Op. 37, on a commission from Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. The four movements of the quartet are based on a single, twelve-note row, although this is fairl...

Bloch was 73 years old when the String Quartet No. 3 was premiered in 1953 by the Griller Quartet. It is far more 'pared-down' than his earlier works, and avoids the influence of Jewish music which he...

This piece was commissioned by the Stanley String Quartet in 1958 and completed in 1959. It was awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1960. Scored for 2 Violins, Viola, Cello.

This 4 movement work was inspired by weather patterns that occured one day while the composer was looking out his window in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

A fascinating and deeply personal work from a major contemporary composer. Duration ca. 22 minutes.

This string quartet was commissioned by the Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts for the Cleveland Quartet.

This 35-minute work is in five movements which bears a resemblance to the arch-form principales of Bartok's fourth quartet. The quartet is based upon a motto composed of even repetitions of a single t...

Score and full set of parts for Villa-Lobos' String Quartet No. 4

First performed by the Julliard String Quartet in 1960. Awarded the 1960 Pulitzer Prize, the 1960 New York Music Critics Circle Award, and the 1961 International Rostrum of Composers Award (UNESCO).

Musique DeCHAMBRE - Cordes : Quatuors

Musique De Chambre - Cordes : Quatuors

Musique De Chambre - Cordes : Quatuors

Musique De Chambre - Cordes : Quatuors

Musique De Chambre - Cordes : Quatuors

Musique De Chambre - Cordes : Quatuors

Composed between 1973 and 1976, Ainsi la nuit for string quartet is one of the most important works of its genre, by Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013), a French composer. Commissioned by the Koussevitzky Fo...

Musique De Chambre - Cordes : Quatuors

POUR 2 VIOLONS, ALTO ET VIOLONCELLE (PARTITION ET PARTIES)