G. Schirmer

Thomas (b. 1964) composed this four-movement work, premiered in 2003, in response to a poem by Emily Dickinson. 34 minutes.

This piece draws inspiration from the idea of mestizaje, where cultures can coexist without the subjugation of one by the other. It mixes elements from the western classical and Andean folk music trad...

The Tokyo String Quartet commissioned this string quartet composition in 2001. This one-movement piece about death and loss was written in memory of one of Tower's friends, and later, of those who die...

This string quartet was inspired by a photo of Corigliano's father playing a violin and his uncle playing the guitar. It was commissioned by the Elements String Quartet and premiered in November 2003...

This 1994 single-movement work is based on a hymn-like theme that both evokes the tradition of American hymn singing and echoes the much older tradition of plainchant. 22 minutes.

Tower's third string quartet contains a white heat from which ideas unfold, develop, interact, and gradually change their temperatures. 18 minutes.

Composed in April-July 1936, the Fourth Quartet was one the first pieces Schoenberg began after emigrating to the United States and settling in Brentwood, CA. It is also one of his first twelve-note c...

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in Music. ca. 39 minutes.

Angels for String Quartet by Joan Tower was composed in 2008 and premiered on August 31 2008 in Angel Fire, NM, performed by the Miami String Quartet. Angels is my fourth quartet - amediumI really lo...

Joan Tower's White Water - String Quartet No. 5. Score and parts. White Water is the first of four commissions for Chamber Music Monterey Bay's 'Arc of Life' project. TheartistBill Viola shared excer...

The years from 1935 to 1950 were difficult ones for Elliot Carter. Wide recognition came only in 1951, when he was forty-three, with this work The First String Quartet. This work features diversified...

This work won the composer the Pulitzer Prize in 1969.

Schoenberg composed his Fourth String Quartet, Op. 37, on a commission from Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. The four movements of the quartet are based on a single, twelve-note row, although this is fairl...

Bloch was 73 years old when the String Quartet No. 3 was premiered in 1953 by the Griller Quartet. It is far more 'pared-down' than his earlier works, and avoids the influence of Jewish music which he...

This piece was commissioned by the Stanley String Quartet in 1958 and completed in 1959. It was awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1960. Scored for 2 Violins, Viola, Cello.

String Quartet in four movements. The first three are about different kinds of 'weather', their atmosphere and energy. The last movement is the moment after: open sky.

A fascinating and deeply personal work from a major contemporary composer. Duration ca. 22 minutes.

This string quartet was commissioned by the Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts for the Cleveland Quartet.

This 35-minute work is in five movements which bears a resemblance to the arch-form principales of Bartok's fourth quartet. The quartet is based upon a motto composed of even repetitions of a single t...

Score and full set of parts for Villa-Lobos' String Quartet No. 4

First performed by the Julliard String Quartet in 1960. Awarded the 1960 Pulitzer Prize, the 1960 New York Music Critics Circle Award, and the 1961 International Rostrum of Composers Award (UNESCO).