Ensemble

My 2nd string quartet is one single slow movement. The piece does not directly reflect Joseph Haydn's Seven Last Words but I would not have been able to write it without knowing that work. The movemen...

The Jagdquartett (Hunt Quartet), which Jörg Widmann wrote as his third string quartet in 2003, following the Choralquartett, also begins with a visible gesture. After a short signal cry from the perfo...

The 15 Miniatures do not follow any of the common classical forms. They rather remind us of bagatelles, but their motifs and structures are carefully interwoven: dialogues, sometimes virtuoso, sometim...

The next I'll do is 3 violin quartets wrote Schumann to Clara Wieck in 1838, stating his reasons in a letter dated 17 March 1838: The thought of the quartets gives me pleasure. The piano is getting to...

It was not until his late twenties that the pianist, Thomas Larcher, known as an expert of contemporary music, began his career as a composer. Among his most interesting works is the string quartet 'C...

With this edition, Schott publishes the early two-movement string quartet by Bernd Alois Zimmermann for the first time. In a letter the composer wrote: 'I am still messing around with my quartet. This...

Two completely different worlds meet in this quartet: on the one hand, a soundscape living mainly through slight changes of a mostly stagnant sound and occasionally turning into an Aeolian harp-like h...

Tango with a difference: not scored for bandoneon or the common sexteto típico, but convincingly for string quartet. Whether as a solo piece or as humorous encore of a classical concert evening - the...

Victor Fenigstein ist ein Schweizer Komponist und Klavierpädagoge. Nach anfänglichem Violinunterricht lernte Fenigstein am Konservatorium seiner Vaterstadt Klavier bei Emil Frey und als Meisterschüler...

Victor Fenigstein ist ein Schweizer Komponist und Klavierpädagoge. Nach anfänglichem Violinunterricht lernte Fenigstein am Konservatorium seiner Vaterstadt Klavier bei Emil Frey und als Meisterschüler...

Natürlich bietet das Beethovensche Œuvre Streichquartetten reichlich Nahrung. Aber manches Ensemble mag sich danach sehnen, nach den üppigen Originalwerken der ernsten Gattung auch einmal einen leicht...

Paul Paradise has selected and edited 26 beautiful Strauss waltzes specifically for string quartet or string orchestra. The pieces were chosen to provide each player with a meaningful part, and have b...

Set mit den Stimmen Violine 1+2, Bratsche , Kontrabass und Cello; erweiterbar auf Streichorchester ohne Partitur

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