String quartet SKU: FG.55011-639-9 Composed by Einojuhani Rautavaara. Sco...(+)
String quartet
SKU:
FG.55011-639-9
Composed by Einojuhani
Rautavaara. Score +
parts. Fennica Gehrman
#55011-639-9. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-639-9).
ISBN
9790550116399.
New
Urtext edition (2020) of
Einojuhani Rautavaara's
String Quartet No. 1 is
based on the composer's
manuscript, incorporating
corrections and comments
by composer's hand in
various sources.
Einojuhani Rautavaara
(1928-2016) was one of
Finland's internationally
most successful
composers. He made his
major breakthrough with
the Seventh Symphony,
Angel of Light, in the
1990s, but his output
includes numerous classic
operas, concertos,
chamber music works and
choral works. Over his
extensive career, he
progressed from
Neo-Classicism to strict
dodecaphony to free-tonal
Neo-Romanticism. His
catalogue of influences
over the decades includes
Orthodox liturgical music
and Finnish fiddlers.
Rautavaara's first string
quartet (1953) is from
his Neo-Classical early
period when he composed
only little chamber
music. Stravinsky and the
Finnish folk music are
present in the rhythmical
first movement; later
enters a characteristic
scale alternating half
and whole steps. After
the Slavic romanticism of
the slow movement Andante
the fiddler is back in
the cheerful Gigue.
String Quartet No. 3 Quatuor Ă cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Edward B. Marks Music Company
Score and Parts SKU: HL.369769 Score and Parts. E.B. Marks. Softco...(+)
Score and Parts
SKU:
HL.369769
Score
and Parts. E.B.
Marks. Softcover. 136
pages. Edward B. Marks
Music #MP504014.
Published by Edward B.
Marks Music (HL.369769).
ISBN 9781705144572.
UPC: 840126992489.
9.0x12.0x0.523
inches.
Julie
Mandel, composer and
lyricist, has written
chamber music, opera,
musical theater, popular
and art songs, in
addition to being Concert
Director of the Long
Island Composers'
Alliance and the
long-time Treasurer of
New York Women Composers.
Her String Quartet No. 3
received a Burton Award
for Contemporary Music
and was recorded by the
Meridian String Quartet
on their album
“DIVERSE
LIGHT.”.