String Quartet (Study Score)

SKU: HL.49009744

Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Edited by Stanley Sadie. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Edition Schott. Classical. Study Score. Composed 1786. 48 pages. Eulenburg Edition #ETP 24. Published by Eulenburg Edition (HL.49009744).

ISBN 9783795761424. UPC: 841886017924. 5.25x7.5x0.152 inches.

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String Quartet

SKU: HL.14030978

Parts. Composed by Wilhelm Hansen. Music Sales America. Classical. Set of Parts. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #KP00248. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14030978).

ISBN 9788759877142. UPC: 888680792640. 9.75x14.5x0.141 inches.

Score available: KP30120 The composer writes: The slow choral-like music which initiates Adieu was the result of an image or almost a dream that I had. Without being able to explain why, I imagined a procession of people, maybe medieval munks, wearing large gray mantles with Ku-Klux-Klan-like white cowls on their heads, something like a funeral procession. The title Adieu is partly a comment on this funeral procession, but also used because the piece is split up by three slow-ascending glissandi, a kind of farewell glissandi which removes the intervening music. The first absorbing glissando is soft and removes both the slow funeral choral and the agitating figures in the first half of the piece. The second glissando is given only to the cello and crawls out from the elegiac melodies in the middle part. The third and final glissando is intense and agitating, and prepares the way for the end of the piece. This end primarily deals with the relationship fast - slow. This relationship is turned topsy turvy: the music gets faster and faster until it is so fast that it suddenly becomes slow, so slow in fact that it is very quickly able to become extremely fast again.