String Quartet - advanced
SKU: HL.49033197
Score and Parts.
Composed by Paul Dessau.
This edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Edition Schott.
Classical. Score and
Parts. Composed 1957. 28
pages. Duration 7'.
Schott Music #ED9617.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49033197).
ISBN
9790001134897. UPC:
884088075477.
8.25x11.75x0.071
inches.
Dessau's
String Quartet movement
was written while he was
also working on Brecht's
opera Puntila. After
Brecht's death in 1956
Dessau found himself
looking for a new
direction. On the one
hand he was still working
on music begun in
collaboration with the
poet, while on the other
hand Dessau was trying to
work towards a socially
oriented musical
aesthetic, which led him
to compose songs for
political purposes. Even
this Quartet movement
does not owe its
inspiration purely to an
artistic vision. In spite
of its technical demands,
the piece is intended to
be comprehensible and
could even be played by
an amateur ensemble in
its cleverly reduced
form. Only discovered
after the composer's
death, the Movement for
String Quartet is
published for the first
time in this edition.
Paul Dessau
