EDITION : STUDY SCORE INSTRUMENTATION : STRING QUARTET CATALOGUE OF WORKS : HOB. III: 28 NUMBER OF PAGES : 24 ARRANGER : ALTMANN, WILHELM SERIES : EULENBURG MINIATURE SCORES

In his seventh string quartet, the well-known Swiss composer Rudolf Kelterborn has achieved something special in terms of form: the title and subtitle already suggest that this quartet plays with a distinctively fragmented inner structure. It is highly appealing how the succession of short individual fragments becomes a cohesive one-movement whole.Both performers and audience encounter a skilful d…

Par DUTILLEUX HENRI. Composed between 1973 and 1976, Ainsi La Nuit for a String Quartet is one of the most important works of its genre, by Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013), a French composer. This score of Ainsi La Nuit is the conductor's score, with the four instruments altogether. The score for each individual instrument can be bought separately. Commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation for the J…

Military March #2 was composed by Peter Maxwell Davies for the Royal Society of Musicians. This item includes the full score and individual parts for this wonderful work, arranged for String Quartet.Lasting around two minutes, this work was first performed on the 3rd of March 2015 by the Sacconi Quartet, at the Wigmore Hall in London, as part of the 20th Annual Jacqueline Du Pré Charity Concert. /…

Par ADES THOMAS. Thomas Adès’s second work for string quartet, The Four Quarters was written for the Emerson Quartet and was premiered by them at Carnegie Hall in 2011. The winner of the 2012 British Composer Award for Chamber Composition, the 20-minute work charts the progress of a day. Glassy harmonics typify the opening movement Nightfalls, whilst playful pizzicati abound in Serenade – Morning …