PARTITIONS GRATUITES : FLûTE, VIOLON, VIOLONCELLE
- Quartet No. 4

String Quartet No.4 was composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 2012. Commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Wigmore Hall For the ArdittiQuartet. Programme note: The basic idea for my Fourth String Quartet was very clear to me: It should be quiet and soft music or to put it in a german term: hoch im Himmel gesungen ... (High singing in heaven). Each of the four movements has a different scordatura/pitch. The first movement begins - like my work 'Schnee' - sky-high with an airy and soft melody by the first violin. The second movement is fast and movement and joy-like. It consists of two duets and a reverse style counterpoint. While the sections were progressively longer in the first movement they are getting shorter and shorter in the second. Dark, heavy and earthy is the third movement and its pizzicato recalls big black raindrops falling to the ground. It is the dark and grainy counterpart to the first movement whereas the fourth movement corresponds to the second. The fourth movement was planned as a dark and heavy counterpart but it turned out to be like babbling music of a child. My Fourth String Quartet has become in its way a serene and cool piece. So the Quartet has been finished luckiyly after twenty years - it was already in 1990 that I was commissioned by Wittener Tage fur Neue Musik to write the piece for Arditti Quartet. Hans Abrahamsen

String Quartet

SKU: BT.MUSM570207435

Composed by David Blake. Set (Score & Parts). 24 pages. University of York Music Press #MUSM570207435. Published by University of York Music Press (BT.MUSM570207435).

English.

David Blake's String Quartet No. 4 was composed in 2004, commissioned by the Northern Aldborough Festival for the Sorrel Quartet.

Composed by Various. For Piano/Keyboard. Hal Leonard Fake Books. Classical. Difficulty: medium to medium-difficult. Fakebook. Melody line, chord names and lyrics (on some songs). 413 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Set of Parts String Quartet (String Parts)

SKU: HL.14012803

Composed by Philip Glass. Music Sales America. Classical. Set of Parts. 64 pages. Music Sales #DU10122. Published by Music Sales (HL.14012803).

ISBN 9780711988231. 8.25x11.75x0.184 inches.

Philip Glass's String Quartet No. 4 was composed as part of the Memorial concert for the artist Brian Buczak. Commissioned by Geoffrey Hendricks, it received its first performance on July 4, 1989 at the Emily Harvey Gallery in New York City.