By Franz Xaver Richter. For 2 Violins, Viola, Cello. This edition: paperback. Breitkopf Kammermusik-Bibliothek. 16 pages. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (German import).

By Ferruccio Busoni. For 2 Violins, Viola, Cello. This edition: paperback. Edition Breitkopf. 52 pages. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (German import).

By Wolfgang Rihm. For 2 Violins, Viola, Cello. This edition: paperback. Edition Breitkopf. 48 pages. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (German import).

By Fanny Cecile Mendelssohn (1805-1847). For 2 Violins, Viola, Cello. This edition: 2 Violins, Viola, Cello. Breitkopf Kammermusik-Bibliothek. Paperback. 86 pages

By Miklos Rozsa (1907-1995). For 2 Violins, Viola, Cello. This edition: 2 Violins, Viola, Cello. Paperback. Edition Breitkopf. 64 pages

String Quartet

SKU: BR.PB-5622

Urtext. Composed by Joachim Raff. Edited by Severin Kolb and Stefan Konig. Chamber music; Softbound. Partitur-Bibliothek (Score Library). Romantic period. Study Score. Breitkopf and Haertel #PB 5622. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.PB-5622).

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.

String Quartet

SKU: BR.PB-32032

Urtext. Composed by Robert Schumann. Edited by Nick Pfefferkorn. Chamber music; Softbound. Partitur-Bibliothek (Score Library). Romantic period. Study Score. Breitkopf and Haertel #PB 32032. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.PB-32032).

ISBN 9790004215661. 6.5 x 9 inches.

Invaluable Glimpses Schumann's close collaboration with the David quartet, together with the valuable advice of his friend Mendelssohn Bartholdy, led the composer to make extensive changes to the Streichquartette op. 41 before publication in December 1842. The present edition is hence to be thought of as a critical Urtext edition; it offers in fact to those interested, an invaluable glimpse into Schumann's creative process and his striving for the final form of his string quartets. All the deletions, changes, and the original phrasing were carefully worked out in detail, restored, and editorially identified in the music text. A detailed preface giving the geneses of the works, as well as pages of the autograph score in facsimile, complement the edition. The parts are of course so configured in the reliable Breitkopf quality that the quartets can also be performed today in the traditional form. The present edition was also used for the Leipzig String Quartet's 2010 CD recording.

String Quartet

SKU: BR.PB-5708

Urtext. Composed by Joachim Raff. Edited by Stefan Konig. Chamber music; Softbound. Partitur-Bibliothek (Score Library). Romantic period. Study Score. Breitkopf and Haertel #PB 5708. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.PB-5708).

ISBN 9790004216453. 6.5 x 9 inches.

When his musical triad op. 192 was created in the winter of 1873/74, Raff was one of Germany's most successful composers and the central artistic authority in the Hessian spa, royal residence and imperial city of Wiesbaden. With op. 192, Raff cultivated his reputation as an erudite composer who was a master of contrapuntal forms. By the time the string quartets were composed, he had already established himself as one of the most prolific and versatile suite composers of the 19th century, as is evident here in the various suite conceptions: Opus 192 No. 1 (in C minor), as Suite in the ancient style, has with Baroque labels stylized dance movements follow one another. Die schone Mullerin [The Fair Maid of the Mill] op. 192 No. 2 (in D major), on the other hand, interprets the suite as a sequence of chapters in a musical narrative and thus becomes probably the first tone poem in string quartet scoring. In the third quartet (in C major), of which Raff the artist was proudest, other genre designations mix in among the dance movements, and with its free succession of different movement types, not usual for a sonata, it preserves structural openness. 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.

String Quartet (2vl,va,vc)

SKU: BR.EB-9342

Composed by Manuela Kerer. Chamber music; stapled. Edition Breitkopf. New music (post-2000); Music post-1945. Full score. Composed 2018. 16 pages. Duration 9'. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 9342. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-9342).

ISBN 9790004188064. 9 x 12 inches.

Gletscher uben eine unglaubliche Faszination aus. Das strahlende Blau des blanken Gletschereises ist einzigartig, aber es kann in noch viel mehr Farben schimmern. Uber Jahrtausende hat sich gezeigt, dass der Gletscher lebt. Er wachst und zieht sich zuruck, altert, scheint zu atmen, kann toten und sterben. Wenn genugend Schnee fallt, wird der Gletscher ,,geboren. Die unteren Schichten Schnee werden von den oberen zusammengepresst und die Metamorphose des Schnees zu Gletschereis beginnt. In den unteren Lagen wird der Druck immer hoher und Luft entweicht. Aus den filigranen Eiskristallen von Neuschnee entstehen stramme Aggregatklumpen. Bei immer grosseren Eismassen kommt es zu einem Impuls der Bewegung durch die Gravitation und Eigendynamik aufgrund der Masse. All diese Gedanken habe ich in meinem ,,Gletscherquartett in Musik gesetzt. Auch naturliche Klimaschwankungen und der Klimaeinfluss des Menschen werden in den vier Streicherstimmen horbar. Denn in den letzten Jahrzehnten schmelzen Gletscher im Rekordtempo. Seit 2000 verlieren etwa die Alpengletscher zwei bis drei Prozent an Volumen pro Jahr, vorher war es jahrlich nur ein Prozent. Nicht umsonst wird der Gletscher als ,,Fieberthermometer des Weltklimas bezeichnet. (Manuela Kerer, 2018).