G. Schirmer

Inspired by the Dante Gabriel Rossetti sonnet of the same name. In three movements: Still, Energetic, and Suspended. 7 minutes.

These two masterpieces of Mozart are particularly important with regard to his treatment of the Viola. Whilst Haydn's use of the instrument is restricted to that of a harmonic filler and accompaniment...

For violin and cello.

Written in 1953, this Viola and Cello duet bears the identical title of another Piston piece written in 1972 for Cello and Piano. Born in 1894, Piston was influenced by Ravel and Stravinsky, taught at...

This exuberant modernist work from the 1930s by the forward-thinking and eclectic American composer George Antheil. Dedicated to Aaron Copland, this Sonatina was designed to be performed as a Violin/C...

Trio Sonata is written for: Keyboard Solo (any type) 50482605 - String Trio (Violin/Viola/Cello) 50482374 - Double Reed Trio (Oboe/English Horn/Bassoon) 50482451 - Clarinet Trio (Clarinet/Clarinet/Bas...

Parts only for: 2 violins, viola and cello.

Parts only for: 2 violins, viola and cello.

String Quartet No. 3 was commissioned in 1971 by the Julliard School for the Julliard String Quartet. It subdivides the ensemble into two duos, which play contrasting movements both individually and a...

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...

Parts only for: 2 violins, viola and cello.

Composer's Autograph Series.

Parts only.

Exciting piece by Tan Dun who is a prize winning composer from Hunan China. This piece tries to draw on Chinese colors and techniques of the Peking Opera.

Commissioned by the Taksscs Quartet, Great Performers of Lincoln Center, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Colorado and the Ensemble Music Society of Indianapolis. Duration c...

A collection of six poems, Husa's String Quartet No. 4 explores the possibilities of unusual sonorities in virtuosic writing. The individual poems speak of Bells, Sunlight, Darkness, Hope, Wild Birds,...

This piece was jointly commissioned by the Freer and Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Richmond, Virginia. It is dedicated to the Shanghai Quartet, who debuted it...

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...