6 String Quartets - 6 Streichquartette, Opus 71 and Opus 74, Hoboken III: 69-74. By F.J. Haydn. Edited by Rowland-Jones. String quartet. For violin 1, violin 2, viola, violoncello. This edition: Urtext. Score and parts. Published by C.F. Peters.

Composed by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), edited by Andreas Moser, Hugo Dechert. For violin I, violin II, viola and cello. Format: set of performance parts (parts only, score not included). With thematic index and introductory text. Classical period. 286 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by C.F. Peters.

Composed by Suk Josef. Edited by Zdenek Nouza. For 2 violins, viola, cello. This edition: Urtext edition. Stapled. Level 4. Set of parts. Opus 31. 17/16/19/15 pages. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag

String quartet

SKU: FG.042-08402-1

Composed by Paavo Heininen. Score. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.042-08402-1).

ISBN 979-0-042-08402-1.

This quartet forms part of a major opus whose different works make use of the same tone row matrix characterised by the harmonic interval of a third. Contrasting with the aggressive, expansive piano sonata which also belongs to the opus, its nostalgic tone is a mark of respect for the traditional ethos of string music. Erkki Salmenhaara compared the work to a prism: As the composer turns it, one and the same shaft of light gives birth over and again to new patterns and combinations of colours.

String quartet string quartet (2vl,va,vc)

SKU: BR.EB-8939

Urtext. Composed by Joachim Raff. Edited by Severin Kolb and Stefan Konig. This edition: Urtext. Chamber music; Folder. Edition Breitkopf. Orchestrally-conceived, full of energetic vigor, and at times uncompromisingly modern: The two captivating quartets are now available as Urtext editions. Romantic period. Set of parts. 88 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 8939. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-8939).

ISBN 9790004186084.

With his first String Quartet in D minor, op. 77, composed in 1855, the native Swiss composer Joachim Raff bid a brilliant farewell to Weimar. He had been there as Franz Liszt's assistant since 1850 and had made a name for himself in the city's art scene - now he embarked on new paths. He composed his second Quartet in A major, op. 90, already in 1857 in Wiesbaden, the spa town that was to become his home for 21 years. The two quartets are unequivocal works: orchestrally-conceived, full of energetic vigor, and at times uncompromisingly modern. They confidently continue the Beethoven tradition and attest at the same time to Raff's intensive confrontation with Richard Wagner's music during the Weimar years. In his chamber music, the composer wanted to achieve progress in an inherently historical way and to ground the individual substance in existing forms, as he told the Viennese violinist Josef Hellmesberger, who launched opus 77. The quartets, first published in 1860/62, found illustrious interpreters, among them, the Muller brothers' renowned ensemble, to which opus 90 was also dedicated, and Joseph Joachim.In collaboration with the Joachim-Raff-Archiv Lachen (CH)

Some eighteen years elapsed between Raff's first counted String Quartet op. 77 and his Quartets Nos. 6-8 op. 192, combined as one work. As such, Raff parted with the weighty single opus in quartet composition - without, however, sacrificing musical quality.