String Quartet
(2vl,va,vc)
SKU:
BR.PB-5622-07
Urtext. Composed
by Joachim Raff. Edited
by Severin Kolb and
Stefan Konig. Chamber
music; Softbound.
Partitur-Bibliothek
(Score Library).
With
his first String Quartet
in D minor, op. 77,
composed in 1855, the
native Swiss composer
Joachim Raff (1822-1882)
bid a brilliant farewell
to Weimar.
Romantic
period. Study Score. 176
pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #PB 5622-07.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel
(BR.PB-5622-07).
ISBN
9790004215197. 6.5 x 9
inches.
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.
