The fifth string quartet by the innovative Philip Glass was originally commissioned by David and Evelyne Lennette for the...
Alban Berg's String Quartet can be considered to be one of the founding works of the Second Viennese School. Already...
Haydn dedicated the series of Quartets op. 71 and 74 to the Hungarian Count Apponyi, a Viennese patron of music and a...
“Masterly and full of new ideas”: thus the Swedish ambassadorial secretary Silverstolpe when he first heard...
These are the last of the nearly seventy quartets in Haydn's oeuvre. Originally he intended to write a set of six quartets,...
When it came to the genre of the string quartet, Beethoven was a relative latecomer. He was already 28 years old when he...
Although Schumann's first attempts at composing for this supreme form of chamber music in 1838-1839 were only fragments, the...
Publisher: Henle Urtext EditionPublication Date: 11/2006Credits: (ed. Ernst Herttrich)Medium: SoftcoverPages: 206Length:...
Publisher: Henle Urtext EditionPublication Date: 11/2006Credits: (ed. Paul Mies)Medium: SoftcoverPages: 246Length: 12.25...
The quartets were dedicated to the violinist Johann Tost, who was the second principal violinist at the Esterházy...
Brahms had already composed over 20 string quartets (he confessed to a friend that he had burnt all of that...
The study edition complements the parts of the String Quartets op. 20 that have already been published in Henle Urtext (HN...
Haydn allowed about ten years to pass before composing a new cycle of string quartets after opus 20: the so-called...
The volume opens with something unusual: opus 42 is a single work, short and surprisingly easy to play; Haydn described it...
Publisher: Henle Urtext EditionPublication Date: 08/2009Length: 12.25 in.Width: 9.25 in.Series: Henle Music FoliosFormat:...