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 Simon Rowland-jones. Hoboken II: 63-68. Score and parts for string quartet (2violins, viola, cello). With introductory text, performance notes and bowings. Urtext. Text language English, French, and German. 262 pages. Published by C.F. Peters.

By Charles Francois Gounod (1818-1893). Edited by Kleinknecht. String Quartets. For 2 Violins, Viola, Cello. Sheet Music. Published by Edition Peters Sheet Music

By Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Edited by Hilf. For 2 violin, viola, violoncello. Op.30(e|). Published by C.F. Peters.

String quartet

SKU: BO.B.3664

Composed by Jordi Cervello. Published by Editorial de Musica Boileau (BO.B.3664).

Cuarteto San Petersburgo (The Saint Petersburg Quartet) was written between January and March 2011. It owes its name to the fact that Saint Petersburg has been a very significant city for me. I was invited there in 1988 to take part in a big contemporary music festival, but my uninterrupted bond with the city started on 2002, thanks to the negotiations of my friend and pupil Albert Barbeta. Since then, I have constantly travelled there in order to record a considerable part of my repertoire: seventeen pieces. In addition to the concerts we went to, I took the opportunity during my trips to visit the well-known conservatoire where so many great personalities from the world of music composition once taught, and the place that launched the most important violin school in the whole of Russia: the school of Leopoldo Auer. Spending a long time in Auer's classroom writing my concert for violin and orchestra was an unforgettable experience for me. His large portrait motivated me even further.

Cuartet o San Petersburgo evokes many of the most cherished and moving moments that I have had in this city. It is structured in four movements. The first one, Allegretto-Allegro, opens with an introduction that sets forth the two main themes, amid a soft and elastic atmosphere. The Allegro starts vigorously and in it we find changes in the tempo and moments of mystery, as well as certain seclusion, returning then to the emphatic theme where the counterpoint finds its place. The movement ends placidly.

The Scherzo-marcato that follows is marked by a persistent rhythm of triplets that carries on from beginning to end. The tempo does not change, but brief and decided themes are introduced, as well as passages of counterpoint. Brief and dissonant chords are heard throughout the movement, which ends vigorously.

The third movement, Ut, is a very special one. For a while already I had been playing with the idea of writing a movement that was to have the tonality C as a leitmotiv. This one is made up by two slow and static parts. In the first one, the first violin plays pizzicatti-glissandi. In the second, the first violin and particularly the violoncello settle on C while the other two instruments produce descending chromatic harmonies.

Final ly, the Introduccion-Presto (the Introduction-Presto). It starts with some bucolic passages which remind us of the introduction to the first movement. A fast and energetic Presto suddenly erupts. A kind of moto perpetuo which alternates with two expressive passages and, towards the end, a viola and violoncello tremolo, all of great mystery and expectation, make way for a resounding finale marcato.

String Quartet (Score)

SKU: HL.14008409

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sales America. 20th Century. Book Only. Composed 1999. Chester Music #CH55681. Published by Chester Music (HL.14008409).

This is - so far - the earliest composition by Davies to be available for performance, and mighty interesting it is. Written while he was still a young student, it provides a candid glimpse of the thing that concerned him: how music could be both forward-moving in the classical Western sense (this is, after all, a piece for a wholly conventional medium) and repetitive in the manner of the Indian and medieval music in which he was interested. What results is a singular machine geared to an intermittent ostinato in the first violin. This movement for string quartet was first performed by the Arditti Quartet in May 1983, as part of the 40th Anniversary Gala concert of the Society for the Promotion of New Music at the Barbican Hall, London. Score (miniature). Duration c. 5mins.

(Quodlibet for String Quartet). By Peter Schickele. String quartet. For Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Violoncello. Standard notation

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 Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), edited by Gewandhaus Quartet. Opus 18. Set of performance parts (parts only, score not included) for 2 violins, 2 violas and 2 cellos. Bb Major. 72 pages. Published by C.F. Peters.