String Quartet SKU: FG.55011-574-3 Composed by Kalevi Aho. Score+parts. F...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
FG.55011-574-3
Composed by Kalevi Aho.
Score+parts. Fennica
Gehrman #55011-574-3.
Published by Fennica
Gehrman (FG.55011-574-3).
ISBN
9790550115743.
Kale
vi Aho (b.1949) was only
18 years old when he
completed his String
Quartet no. 1 in g minor
(1967). Nonetheless it
was already the second
one of its kind: the
earlier string quartet in
a minor got christened
String Quartet No. 0 and
banned from performing.
The g minor quartet was
heard the first time only
50 years after it was
born, when the Kamus
Quartet premiered it at
the Musica Kalevi Aho
Festival in Forssa on
June 28, 2019. In Aho's
home town, Forssa, it was
not possible to study
composition with a
teacher: My model in this
and the other works I
composed while I was at
school was all the mostly
tonal music I had
personally played on the
violin or heard on the
radio. The first
movement, Moderato,
begins in variation form,
until followed by a fugue
based on the variation
theme. The initially
lyrical second movement
has a quick, virtuosic
and light middle section.
The third movement is a
very quick scherzo that
becomes dramatic, and the
work ends with a
chorale-like finale. The
composer tells: When I
got to study composition
at the Sibelius Academy
in autumn 1968 and showed
the quartet to my
teacher, Einojuhani
Rautavaara, he said there
was no point my studying
tonal harmony and tonal
formal constructions any
longer; that I could do
the exams in them
straight away and start
the courses in modern
music resources there and
then..
Score
and Parts. Composed
by Johanna Senfter.
Edited by Wolfgang
Birtel. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. String Ensemble.
Classical. Softcover. Op.
28. Duration 24'. Schott
Music #ED21076. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49019413).
ISBN
9790001176477. UPC:
841886016729.
The
composer Johanna Senfter
(1879 1961) from
Oppenheim concerned
herself with chamber
music for strings all her
life, even studied violin
in Frankfurt herself. Max
Reger then gave her
lessons in Leipzig, first
privately, then in his
composition class at the
conservatoire and valued
her 'extraordinary
compositional talent'.
The strict teacher more
and more became a
committed promoter of the
works by Johanna Senfter.
For a period of 50 years,
the composer concerned
herself with the string
quartet genre, from
Quartet No. 1 in D minor
Op. 4, composed shortly
after the turn of the
century, to the sixth and
last Quartet in C minor
Op. 115 which was
performed for the first
time in 1960, one year
before her death. The
Quartet in F sharp minor
Op. 28 is her second
quartet which was
premiered in Darmstadt on
5 November 1922. In this
work, as in later works,
Senfter combined
traditional form models -
here Baroque movements
like gavotte, saraband,
gigue - with expressive,
late Romantic musical
language. The work,
consisting of six short
movements, may without
doubt be regarded as a
valuable addition to the
quartet repertoire.
String Quartet; Violin
(Score & Parts) - very
easy
SKU:
HL.49045441
For
Violin and String Quartet
(Score/Parts).
Composed by Ferdinand
Kü and chler. Edited
by Wolfgang Birtel. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
String. Classical.
Softcover. Op. 11. 80
pages. Schott Music
#SE1002. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49045441).
ISBN
9790001161794. UPC:
841886028593.
9.25x12.0x0.082 inches.
German - English -
French.
Ferdinand
Kuchler is regarded as
one of the great violin
teachers of the 20th
century, not least
because of his violin
method. His Concertino in
G major Op. 11 still is a
popular entry-level piece
of concert literature
even in today's violin
lessons.Apart from the
edition in the original
instrumentation for
violin and piano (SE
1001), this arrangement
follows the title
'Concertino' and allows
for early playing with
string accompaniment -
with string quartet and
double-bass ad libitum or
scored for multiple parts
with string orchestra.
Further individual
orchestral parts are
available for download at
www.notafina.de. As an
alternative to the viola
part, a part for a third
violin is notated as
well.This edition is part
of the new Schott Student
Edition series which
offers varied literature
at five different levels
of difficulty, from 1
(easy) to 5 (difficult),
for instrumental
lessons.
String Quartet SKU: HL.14023641 Composed by Michael Nyman. Music Sales Am...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14023641
Composed
by Michael Nyman. Music
Sales America. 20th
Century. Score. Composed
1993. 80 pages. Chester
Music #CH61116. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14023641).
ISBN
9780711964082.
9.0x12.0x0.219
inches.
String
Quartet No.4 was written
for the Camilli Quartet
who gave the first
performance at the Queen
Elizabeth Hall, London,
April 1995. It is
dedicated to the memory
of Nyman's composition
teacher, Alan Bush. This
quartet is a narrative
made up of a chain of
twelve complete but often
cross-related movements,
each quite simple in
design. For instance, the
Scottish melody first
heard in the second half
of I is hinted at in the
2nd violin/viola in the
second fast section of II
and is directly quoted
again during III and XII.
The theme of the fast
section of IV is taken up
again in VIII; IX reverts
to the mood of the
opening of I, while the
rising scale/syncopated
themes of II, IX and the
bass of X and XII are
related. X also
reintroduces the slow
harmonics theme from VII.
XII is (apparently) cast
in the form of a baroque
French rondeau. The main
theme of VI was plucked
out of the Quartet and
used in my score for
Christopher Hampton's
film Carrington. Duration
40 minutes. A set of
parts is available for
sale.
Composed
by Joerg Widmann. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Edition Schott. Score and
parts. Composed 1997. 62
pages. Duration 14'.
Schott Music #ED 9747.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49033268).
ISBN
9790001136846.
9.25x12.0x0.175
inches.
The five
strings quartets by Jorg
Widmann are compact
studies, like those of
his teacher Wolfgang
Rihm. Performed
individually, the focus
is on the respective
central technical and
aesthetic idea. Performed
as a cycle, however, they
get closer to the
well-known classical
multi-movement form.The
theme of the first string
quartet is the
quintessential beginning:
in an introduction, it
takes some time for the
strained sounds to turn
into harmonics. Then it
is the viola, the 'poor
cousin' in the string
quartet literature, which
takes up and defines the
musical work. The
workconcludes with a
demanding eight-part
double-stopping polyphony
of all instruments.
Cello, Viola, Violin, String Quartet SKU: HL.14026541 Composed by Per Nor...(+)
Cello, Viola, Violin,
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14026541
Composed
by Per Norgard. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Score. 12 pages. Music
Sales #KP01185. Published
by Music Sales
(HL.14026541).
ISBN
9788759874226.
9.5x14.25x0.058 inches.
Danish.
String
Quartet No.1 - 'Quartetto
Breve' (1952) by Per
Norgard. Programme
note: The spectrum
of sound, the
gesticulation - in short,
the very nature of the
strings - has always had
a central place in my
output, demonstrated by
the numbers of string
quartets, concertos with
string soloist, chamber
and solo works. The
interest dates back to my
school years, when I was
fortunate to be able to
compose for a
cello-playing schoolmate
and to accompany him on
the piano. I discovered
then the innumerable
nuances of sound and
playing varieties offered
by just one bow, four
strings and five
fingers.. My first
string quartet -
Quartetto Breve - has a
firm root in the
Nordictradition and is
strongly inspired by Jean
Sibelius (1865-1957) and
my teacher Vagn Holmboe
(1909-96). Per
Norgard (1998) .
Composed by Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979). Chamber/Ensemble. Score and parts. 52 pa...(+)
Composed by Rebecca
Clarke (1886-1979).
Chamber/Ensemble. Score
and parts. 52 pages.
Oxford University Press
#9780193867499. Published
by Oxford University
Press
Composed by Antonin
Dvorak. Edited by Peter
Jost. Study Score.
Paperbound. Henle Study
Scores. Classical.
Softcover. 80 pages. G.
Henle #HN7045. Published
by G. Henle
(HL.51487045).
ISBN
9790201870458. UPC:
888680745318.
6.75x9.5x0.244
inches.
In autumn
1895, after returning
from New York once and
for all, Dvorák took
up his former position as
teacher at the Prague
Conservatory. This
clearly had an inspiring
impact on him because in
the space of just four
weeks he composed a new
string quartet in G
major. Together with the
Quartet in A-flat major
op. 105, it forms a
glorious close to his
chamber music oeuvre.
Echoes of Bohemian folk
music are here mixed with
cantabile themes, while
his motivic working shows
him to be a master at the
height of his powers.
Even today, it seems
almost as if we can feel
the composer's
satisfaction with this
work: “I am working
so easily and it is going
so smoothly that I could
not wish it
better.â€.