String Ensemble (Parts)
SKU: HL.48024809
Realisation for String
Septet by Rudolf Leopold
Parts. Composed by
Richard Strauss. Boosey &
Hawkes Chamber Music.
Classical. Softcover. 60
pages. Duration 1440
seconds. Boosey & Hawkes
#M060136665. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
(HL.48024809).
ISBN
9781784545604. UPC:
888680978990.
9.0x12.0x0.169
inches.
In 1990 a
short score of Strauss's
late masterpiece
Metamorphosen was
discovered in Switzerland
and acquired by the
Bavarian State Library in
Munich. It is headed
'Metamorphosen. Andante
(für 2 Violinen, 2
Bratschen, 2 Celli[,]
Contrabass) Richard
Strauss'. This gives rise
to the assumption that
the composer had clearly
conceived the piece as
scored for seven strings
and then changed his
mindon receiving a
commission from Paul
Sacher to write a work
for a larger string
group. The short score
bears the date 31 March
1945 at the end, the full
score for twenty-three
strings having already
been started on 13 March.
Rudolf Leopold, concert
cellist and professor of
cello at the University
of Music, Graz, prepared
the septet performing
version of Metamorphosen,
of which the study score
was published in 1996. He
explains that, for the
most part, the 23-part
version consists of
doublings. “In the
realisation of the
'original version' for
string sextet and double
bass I have made use of
both the short score and
the final score so that
the complete tonal image
appears in a chamber
music format whilst
retaining certain
interesting details from
the short score (for
example the original
closing
modulation).â€.
