String Quartet (bsn,vl,va,vc)

SKU: BR.EB-8079

Composed by Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer. Chamber music; Softcover. Edition Breitkopf. Romantic period. Score. 48 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 8079. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-8079).

ISBN 9790004174630. 9 x 12 inches.

Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer versuchte sich in seiner Kindheit auf verschiedenen Instrumenten und gelangte dann uber den Kontrabass zum Violoncello. Bereits als 16jahriger wurde er in die Hofkapelle Meiningen aufgenommen, und nachdem er seinen letzten Schliff als Virtuose von der Vortragskunst Bernhard Rombergs erhalten hatte, wurde er, 28jahrig, als sachsischer Kammermusiker an die Dresdner Hofkapelle berufen. Als Lehrer hat Dotzauer vorzugliche Cellisten herangebildet; neben Unterrichtswerken schrieb er auch diverse Werke verschiedener Gattungen. Das ,,Quartett fur Fagott und Streichtrio ist dreisatzig angelegt:, einem Allegro in B-dur folgt ein dreiteiliges Andantino in Es-dur mit einem Minore in es-moll; den Abschluss bildet ein lebhaftes Rondo in B-dur.

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.