Robert Schumann: String Quartets Op.41: String Quartet: Score and Parts

Le nouveau Robert Schumann Edition (RSA) est conçu comme une édition historico-critique des oeuvres recueillies. Ils seront soigneusement étudiés et préparés selon des techniques musicologiques et rédactionnelles actuelles et présentés dans leur intégralité. Brouillons, des croquis et des fragments, bref, tout ce qui est parvenu à nous comme étant authentiquement par Schumann et qui, dans la plupart des cas, a été délibérément préservé par lui, seront rassemblées, évalué quant à son importance et documentés dans une forme ou une autre, dans l'édition des oeuvres complètes.C'est le but de l'édition de reproduire des textes authentiques qui - après avoir corrigé copistes, copies et d'impression des erreurs et éradiquées ajouts et autres corruptions textuelles - aborderont aussi étroitement que possible l'intention des originaux.L'édition critique formeront la base du matériel de rendement précis pour le travail de Robert Schumann. / Quatuor A Cordes

Although Schumann's first attempts at composing for this supreme form of chamber music in 1838/39 were only fragments, the three String Quartets op. 41 in a minor, F major and A major were written in one go in June/July 1842. At the first private performances the audience was enthusiastic and it was Mendelssohn's praise in particular that occasioned Schumann to dedicate the new works to him. The composer wrote to his publisher in an appropriately confident manner: 'Be assured, I have spared no pains in creating something very decent, indeed I sometimes think it is my best?. As is generally known, today Schumann's Opus 41 forms part of the core repertoire for quartet players. / Quatuor A Cordes

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 have all along advised the classical string quartet’s outstanding compositions, but they are hardly easy to play for beginners. Here, with the present collection, is where Eva-Maria Neumann comes in. The two volumes include A total of 20 easy to intermediate arrangements of pieces from Bach to Bartók, together with specifically composed ones in string-quartet friendly keys - Reading scores and individual parts - additionally, individual part for violin III instead of viola - Tips on warming up, intonation, bowing, fingering, tempos, dynamics, and playing musically - Specific instructions for the individual pieces - Lists of supplementary original literature The pieces are also effective as scored for chorus./ Recueil / Quatuor à Cordes

for 2 Violins, Viola and Violoncello. Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. 'The next I'll do is 3 violin quartets' wrote Schumann to Clara Wieck in 1838, stating his reasons in a letter dated 17 March 1838: 'The thought of the quartets gives me pleasure. The piano is getting too narrow for me. In composing now I often hear a lot of things that I can barely suggest. For instance, it is remarkable how I invent almost everything canonically and never discover the imitating voices until afterward, very often in inversions, inverted rhythms.' The new urtext edition is based on the text of the Schumann Complete Edition./ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes