Each of these four-movement works is a real jewel. Mozart worked hard on these six string quartets, and dedicated them to none other than the “inventor” of the genre himself: Joseph Haydn. They were first published in 1785, and have since then been reprinted innumerable times. Wolf-Dieter Seiffert, the editor of this new Henle Urtext edition, already penned the Critical Report for these Haydn Quartets in the New Mozart Edition, 25 years ago. He is now presenting this core repertoire in an edition of its own. This Urtext edition clarifies numerous inaccuracies in other editions, especially with regard to dynamics and articulation, and even corrects a few wrong notes that had gone unnoticed up to now. Special attention has here been paid to making the music as easy-to-read as possible, with ideally placed page turns.
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Pulitzer Prize winning composer George Walker's first string quartet was composed in 1946 after his graduation from the Curtis Institute of Music and debut as a prodigious piano soloist with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra. The first movement presents strongly contrasting themes in a clearly defined sonata form. The second Adagio movement would later become the basis of Walker's most popular work, Lyric for Strings. The third movement is a large-scaled Rondo which closes with a reflective coda.
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We have now come full circle – this edition concludes the Henle Urtext series of the complete Beethoven string quartets. The ending of this highly expressive work, at whose centre is the famous “Cavatina,” was originally the “Grand Fugue.” Yet a contemporary critic felt that this was “unintelligible, like Chinese.” At the urging of the publisher Beethoven replaced it with a newly composed finale and published the “Grand Fugue” with a new opus number. Ever since, it has often been performed separately. In order to respect the desire of modern ensembles to be able to perform the Quartet op. 130 in Beethoven's original version, we have included the “Grand Fugue” in this edition.
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Arrangements of three of Bolcom's famous piano rags: Poltergeist, Graceful Ghost, and Incineratorag.
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This extraordinary collection of wedding favorites is the perfect solution for wedding planners looking for just the right music for that upcoming wedding ceremony. The arrangements are appropriate for the string quartet of for strong orchestra. The optional contrabass part provides additional flexibility. Selections include: Aria (Handel); Bridal Chorus (Wagner); Wedding March (Mendelssohn); Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke); Largo from “Winter” (Vivaldi); Rigaudon (Campra); Theme from 1st Symphony (Brahms); March (Mozart); Trumpet Tune (Purcell); Canon (Pachelbel); Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach); Allegro from “Winter” (Vivaldi).
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The E-flat Major String Quartet, Op. 127, is a key work not only in Beethoven's Oeuvre but in the entire history of the genre. The first of the late quartets, it “transfers the formal and symbolic aspects of his two major works for chorus and orchestra [the Missa solemnis and the Ninth Symphony] to the more intimate domain of chamber music” (William Kinderman). For years, music lovers have been waiting for a new edition based on the scholarly text from the new Beethoven Gesamtausgabe. The wait has paid off! The highly complex source situation was examined for the first time and thus Beethoven's “final intentions” are now available in an urtext edition. The set of parts (HN 740) and the score (HN 9740) both come with a detailed preface and editorial notes.
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This extraordinary collection of wedding favorites is the perfect solution for wedding planners looking for just the right music for that upcoming wedding ceremony. The arrangements are appropriate for the string quartet of for strong orchestra. The optional contrabass part provides additional flexibility. Selections include: Aria (Handel); Bridal Chorus (Wagner); Wedding March (Mendelssohn); Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke); Largo from “Winter” (Vivaldi); Rigaudon (Campra); Theme from 1st Symphony (Brahms); March (Mozart); Trumpet Tune (Purcell); Canon (Pachelbel); Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach); Allegro from “Winter” (Vivaldi).
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Mishima String Quartet (String Quartet No.3) originally appeared as parts of the film score for Mishima by film maker Paul Schrader. The film follows a complex narrative structure which divides the life of this famous contemporary Japanese novelist into 3 parts – his childhood, his mature years and the last day of his life. These subjects were intercut to produce a shifting kaleidoscopic vision of Mishima's life. The scenes of his childhood were filmed in black and white and scored for string quartet. An excellent contemporary string quartet by the innovative Philip Glass.
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This extraordinary collection of wedding favorites is the perfect solution for wedding planners looking for just the right music for that upcoming wedding ceremony. The arrangements are appropriate for the string quartet of for strong orchestra. The optional contrabass part provides additional flexibility. Selections include: Aria (Handel); Bridal Chorus (Wagner); Wedding March (Mendelssohn); Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke); Largo from “Winter” (Vivaldi); Rigaudon (Campra); Theme from 1st Symphony (Brahms); March (Mozart); Trumpet Tune (Purcell); Canon (Pachelbel); Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach); Allegro from “Winter” (Vivaldi).
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Beethoven's Op. 135, one of the last works he composed, is equally famous for its compositional clarity and for the inadequacy of previous editions. Theproblem lies in the surviving sources, for Beethoven's autograph score contains a great many contradictions compared to his autograph set of parts. In 1827, after Beethoven's death, the German publisher of the first edition posthumously ironed out these discrepancies as he saw fit, and later editions simply adopted his interventions. Rainer Cadenbach's volume is the first attempt to produce an authoritative text for Op. 135. Beethoven's contradictory formulations are laid bare, allowing musicians to make their own decisions. This ambitious new edition also finds room for ideal page turns.
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Quintet in A minor for Piano & Strings. Includes score and set of parts for Violin 1 and 2, Viola and Cello.
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These are the last of the nearly seventy quartets in Haydn's oeuvre. Originally he intended to write a set of six quartets, as so often in the past, but at the time they were written, in 1803, Haydn's health was so poor that he could not fully satisfy the commission from Prince Lobkowitz. Instead he published only two complete quartets as op. 77. Later he allowed an incomplete work consisting of two middle movements to appear as op. 103, adding to the print the portentous words: “Gone is all my strength, old and weak am I.” Musically, however, these quartets are anything but weak: they represent the aged composer virtually at the zenith of his powers. Haydn even went so far as to call op. 77, no. 2, his “most beautiful string quartet.”
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Attention, string quartet players: the long wait is over! Henle launches its series of late Beethoven quartets with op. 131 in c sharp minor and op. 132 in a minor, using the definitive urtext from the Beethoven Gesamtausgabe. It need hardly be added that great care was taken to find sensible page turns. The quartets will also appear simultaneously in miniature scores with exactly the same text and commentary. The editor, Emil Platen, has given each volume detailed critical comments consisting of a preface, explanatory footnotes, and an impressive section of editorial remarks. All of Beethoven's late string quartets are scheduled for subsequent publication in the Gesamtausgabe. Franz Beyer, the authority on string quartets, with regard to this new issue: “The most significant edition over the last twenty years worldwide!”
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The name Mahler is so closely associated with the symphony and Lied genres that it is little known how intensively he applied himself to chamber music during his studies. Of his numerous attempts in this field only one piano quartet composed between 1876 and 1878 has survived - and of this merely the first movement in its entirety. The latter was only rediscovered in the 1960s and first published in 1973. Even if Brahms is unmistakably his model, the quartet movement contains enough individual and also unconventional elements - such as the almost symphonic treatment of the piano - for Henle to incorporate it into their Urtext ranks. In addition, they have included an appendix “for study purposes” with Mahler's fragmentary sketch for a further movement, a scherzo for the same instrumentation.
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The second string quartet by Philip Glass is a lyrical, almost romantic piece with strong prominant melodies and deceptively simplistic arrangement that reflects his pioneering minimal compositions. The piece began life as a score for Mabou Mines, the New York theater company that counted him as “unofficial” composer for almost three decades, and the name comes from the Samuel Beckett play Company.
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The immediate model for this first important chamber music work by Ravel was Debussy's String Quartet from 1892/93. Nevertheless, the composition, written in 1902/03, already contains unmistakable features that are characteristic of later Ravel works: highly developed sense of tone colour, unexpected harmonisations of the melodic line, cyclical interplay of the motifs and themes. Ravel evidently saw the quartet as a kind of conclusion to his studies at the Paris Conservatoire and dedicated it to his revered teacher Gabriel Fauré. With the Urtext edition of Ravel's string quartet based on all available sources, a significant gap in Henle's stringquartet programme has been closed – as always in two forms: as a set of parts and a study score.
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Embark on a thrilling musical journey with this accessible string quartet arrangement by Robert Longfield. This captivating medley of themes will bring the magic of dragons to life! With captivating rhythms and mesmerizing melodies, your young string players will soar to new heights! Let the power of dragons captivate your ensemble and create an unforgettable performance!
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Haydn dedicated the series of Quartets op. 71 and 74 to the Hungarian Count Apponyi, a Viennese patron of music and a freemason friend. Haydn composed them when he was enjoying a great deal of success with his “London Symphonies” in England. With their weighty slow introductions and dense movements focusing on sound, they also have symphonic characteristics. In particular the Quartet in G minor op. 74,3 is striking on account of its expressiveness and originality. Due to the rhythmic drive of the outer movements it was give the epithet “Rider Quartet.” The study edition complements the parts of the “Apponyi Quartets” which are already available in Henle Urtext.
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After a twelve-year interval, Dvorák once again turned his attention to the string quartet in summer 1893. He had been musical director in New York since autumn 1892 and spent the summer in Spillville (Iowa) where a group of Czech immigrants had settled, thus making him feel at home. The beautiful natural surroundings led him to write this unconventional string quartet in the tradition of Beethoven's “Pastoral” - even down to the imitation of birdcalls. Since the first performances, certain rhythmic and melodic characteristics have been traced back to the influences of the folk music of Native Americans and African Americans, which led to the soon popular work being called the “American Quartet”. For the first time since 1955, the quartet is once again being published in an Urtext edition.
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Brahms had already composed over 20 string quartets (he confessed to a friend that he had burnt all of that “stuff”) before he finally presented his Opus 51 to the public. In the end only three surviving works managed to withstand his high self-criticism; numerous layers of corrections bear witness to his struggle with each detail. We are now publishing the two passionate dark Quartets op. 51 separately from the rather more lively Opus 67. The basis for this edition is the volume in the New Complete Edition of Brahms' works, published in 2004 by Henle, for which previously missing sources in a Swiss bequest were consulted for the first time.
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A collection of 12 traditional carols for easy string quartet (Grade 2) from master arranger Bruce Healey. This group of delightful arrangements will become your most valuable resource of holiday music for years to come. Each carol is given a fresh, creative treatment, yet is expertly arranged with younger players in mind. Songs include: Away in a Manger • We Wish You a Merry Christmas • Deck the Halls • Ding, Dong, Merrily on High • God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen • Greensleeves • O Come All Ye Faithful • Chanukah, Oy Chanukah • O Holy Night • Pat-A-Pan • Silent Night • Three Holiday Songs (Medley including The Dreydl Song, Jingle Bells, and Joy to the World).
Also available for:
00841986 Solo Violin and Piano
00842194 Solo Viola and Piano
00842195 Solo Cello and Piano
String Orchestra:
• 04490308 Conductor Score
• 04490309 Violin 1 part
• 04490310 Violin 2 part
• 04490311 Violin 3 part (Viola T.C.)
• 04490312 Viola part
• 04490313 Cello part
• 04490314 String Bass part
• 04490315 Piano
• 04490316 Opt. Harp
• 04490317 Opt. Percussion
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