Anspruchsvolle Noten für Streichensemble: Literatur für die Oberstufe

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...

Parts only for: 2 violins, viola and cello.

Parts only for: 2 violins, viola and cello.

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.

Born in 1947, Laurent Duvillier-Wable trained under pianist Suzanne Joly and studied composition with Michel Puig. The latter, a student of René Leibowitz, introduced him to the mysteries of Schönberg...

Born in 1947, Laurent Duvillier-Wable trained under pianist Suzanne Joly and studied composition with Michel Puig. The latter, a student of René Leibowitz, introduced him to the mysteries of Schönberg...

The second of the Quartets commissioned by the Naxos label was completed in January 2003. This work swings between nervous virtuosic energy to the serene calm of an extended Lento, with exotic harmoni...

The Full Score for Peter Maxwell Davies' fourth in a series of ten string quartets commissioned by the Naxos Recording company, first performed by the Maggini Quartet on 20th August 2004 at the Chapel...

Among the master's most exalted compositions, these selections include String Quartets No. 12 in E-flat, Op. 127; No. 13 in B-flat, Op. 130; No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131; No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 13...

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...

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.

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

The Composer writes: 'In February 1987 I saw in the Tate Gallery in London a painting by the Victorian English painter John William Waterhouse. The painting kept haunting my memory, and as I at the sa...

Stride is a work for String Quartet by American composer Nico Muhly from 2005.

Set of parts for Vagn Holmboe's String Quartet No. 7 ('7. Quartetto') / Strygekvartet Nr. 7 Op. 86 (1964-65).

British composer Michael Nyman 'discovered' this work when he played Leporello's catalogue aria from Mozart's opera Don Giovanni on the Piano in the style of Jerry Lee Lewis. He has written that that...

Parts for Stepping Still for String Sextet by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen.

Streichquartett Nr. 2 beginnt und endet mit musikalischen Ideen, die mir seit meiner Jugend in irgendeiner Form im Hinterkopf waren. Im Zuge des Umzugs im Jahr 2020 entdeckte ich einige alte Minidiscs...

Olga Neuwirths Streichquartett, entstanden 2009, ist eine Hommage an den US-amerikanischen Künstler Henry Darger und dessen erst posthum entdecktes, reich illustriertes gleichnamiges Buchmanuskript. D...

Mein 3. Streichquartett besteht aus sechs kontrastierenden Sätzen. Bestimmte musikalische Figuren kehren im gesamten Werk wieder, aber es gibt nur wenige Themen als solche. Das Hauptaugenmerk liegt au...

Foreign Tongues erforscht eine andere Art der Betrachtung der Standard-Streichquartettbesetzung. In dem Werk, in dem das Cello gegen die übrigen Streicher antritt, soll die Idee erforscht werden, dass...