Score and Parts String
Quartet (Score & Parts)
SKU: HL.49045929
No. 7 from:
“Jazz-like. Partita for
Piano” String Quartet
Score and Parts.
Composed by Erwin
Schulhoff. Arranged by
Wolfgang Birtel. String
Ensemble. Classical.
Softcover. 12 pages.
Schott Music #ED22607.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49045929).
9.0x12.0x0.057
inches.
The
Austro-Hungarian composer
Erwin Schulhoff
(1894-1942) was musically
precocious: At the
suggestion of AntonĂn
Dvorák, he receivedpiano
lessons at the age of
seven, and at the age of
ten became a student at
the Prague Conservatory.
Further piano studies in
Vienna, Cologne and
Leipzig as well as
composition lessons with
Max Reger supplemented
his education. His Jewish
heritage, which defamed
his music as
“degenerate”, and his
sympathy for communism,
however, cost him his
life. In Prague and
finally interned in
WĂĽlzburg near
Weissenburg in Bavaria,
he died of tuberculosis.
Schulhoff's musical
significance lies in the
integration of jazz into
art music, for example in
his oratorio H.M.S. Royal
Oak or in his Hot Sonata
for alto saxophone and
piano. He earned his
living as a jazz pianist
for a long time. In
August 1922 he wrote four
short piano pieces, his
Rag Music, to which he
added four more phrases
in November: released as
Partita, also known as
Jazz-like Partita - with
the fashion dances
Ragtime, Foxtrott,
Shimmy, Boston and - as
No. 7 - a tango. From a
piano to a string quartet
movement, the arrangement
presents itself as a
delicate and smart,
technically not too
difficult sweet, suitable
as a diversion or
addition in a quartet
program.
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