Par SENFTER JOHANNA. The composer Johanna Senfter (1879 1961) from Oppenheim concerned herself with chamber music for strings all her life, even studied violin in Frankfurt herself. Max Reger then gave her lessons in Leipzig, first privately, then in his composition class at the conservatoire and valued her 'extraordinary compositional talent'. The strict teacher more and more became a committed p…

20 Easy to Intermediate Pieces from four Centuries. Par NEUMANN EVA-MARIA (Arr.). Making music in a quartet uniquely nurtures young string players’ musical development, ensemble playing, listening to each other, and intonation. So, what could be more obvious than introducing the scoring of this genre, often referred to as chamber music’s supreme discipline, as early as possible. Indeed, composers…

Par FREEMAN ALEX. Alex Freeman found initial inspiration for his string quartet (2015) in a series of photographs a geologist friend showed him of en échelon veins in rock formations. The open strings punctuated with pizzicato unisons that begin the single-movement work call to mind something crystalline and shimmering, which is immediately infused with tumbling lyrical lines in something of a rap…

Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Après la parution au début des années 2017 et 2019 respectivement des volumes IV et III de la série intégrale des quatuors à cordes de Mozart aux éditions Urtext de Henle, l'expert de Mozart Wolf-Dieter Seiffert propose maintenant - en partition et parties séparées - le volume II. Y sont contenus, sous les numéros Köchel 168 à 173, les 'Frühe Wiener Quartette' (les 'Qu…