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Rabl s Quartet in E-Flat Major won first prize in 1896 in a prestigious competition for young composers sponsored by the Vienna Tonkünstlerverein of which Johannes Brahms was honorary president and a judge of the competition. Brahms recommended the piece to his own publisher Simrock who released it the following year along with three other Rabl works: the Fantasy Pieces for Piano Trio Op. 2 and two sets of Four Songs Op. 3 and Op. 4. The Op. 1 quartet appears to be the first work ever written for that combination which was later more famously used by Messiaen in his Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the end of time) composed in 1941.
SKU: CA.5060100
ISBN 9790007087647.
The first volume of the new scholarly edition contains the complete chamber music without a keyboard instrument. The most important group of works comprises the string quartets, 10 of which have survived. They were composed during the 1770s, when Haydn was developing this class of music. The differing balance between such contrasting musical elements as entries in imitation, courtly melody, swift changes of tempo and unexpected modulations gives each of the quartets its special charm. The fact that six of them were published in 1784 as Kraus's Opus 1 by the publisher J. J. Hummel shows that the composer himself was convinced by his quartets. With the Flute quintet this volume also contains another key work in Kraus's chamber music. Composed in Vienna about 1783 and also issued in manuscript copies, this work was printed by Ignaz Pleyel in Paris in 1799.
SKU: BR.EB-8939
ISBN 9790004186084.
With his first String Quartet in D minor, op. 77, composed in 1855, the native Swiss composer Joachim Raff bid a brilliant farewell to Weimar. He had been there as Franz Liszt's assistant since 1850 and had made a name for himself in the city's art scene - now he embarked on new paths. He composed his second Quartet in A major, op. 90, already in 1857 in Wiesbaden, the spa town that was to become his home for 21 years. The two quartets are unequivocal works: orchestrally-conceived, full of energetic vigor, and at times uncompromisingly modern. They confidently continue the Beethoven tradition and attest at the same time to Raff's intensive confrontation with Richard Wagner's music during the Weimar years. In his chamber music, the composer wanted to achieve progress in an inherently historical way and to ground the individual substance in existing forms, as he told the Viennese violinist Josef Hellmesberger, who launched opus 77. The quartets, first published in 1860/62, found illustrious interpreters, among them, the Muller brothers' renowned ensemble, to which opus 90 was also dedicated, and Joseph Joachim.In collaboration with the Joachim-Raff-Archiv Lachen (CH)Some eighteen years elapsed between Raff's first counted String Quartet op. 77 and his Quartets Nos. 6-8 op. 192, combined as one work. As such, Raff parted with the weighty single opus in quartet composition - without, however, sacrificing musical quality.
SKU: HL.49009628
ISBN 9783795766085. UPC: 841886015722. 5.25x7.5x0.072 inches.
With more than 1,200 titles from the orchestral and choral repertoire, from chamber music and musical theatre, Edition Eulenburg is the world's largest series of scores, covering large part of music history from the Baroque to the Classical era and looking back on a long tradition.
SKU: SU.00220263
This CD Sheet Musicâ„¢ collection makes available full scores and parts for string quartets by 19th C Slavic masters Dvorák, Glazunov and Tchaikovsky. DVORÃK: String Quartets No. 2 in B-flat major (parts only); No. 5 in F minor, Op. 9 (parts only); No. 7 in A minor, Op. 16 (parts only); No. 8 in E major, Op. 80; No. 9, Op. 34; No. 10 in E-flat major, Op. 51 Slavonic; No. 11 in C major, Op. 61; No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 American; No. 13 in G major, Op. 106; No. 14 in A-flat major, Op. 105 GLAZUNOV: String Quartets No. 1 in D Major, Op. 1; No. 2 in F Major, Op. 10; No. 3 in G major, Op. 26, Quartet Slave; No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 64; No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 70; No. 6 in Bb Major, Op. 106; Suite in C Major for String Quartet, Op. 35; 5 Novelettes for String Quartet, Op. 15 TCHAIKOVSKY: String Quartet, No 1 in D major; Op. 11; No. 2 in F major, Op. 22; No. 3 in E-flat minor, Op. 30 Also includes composer bios and relevant articles from the 1911 edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2000+ pages
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