SKU: BR.KM-266
The Breitkopf Originals series opens up a fascinating view into the Breitkopf & Hartel publishing-house archives. The focus is on its rarities and treasures, together with milestones in the history of interpretation for works of the. Classical; Romantic. Score. 224 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #KM 266. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.KM-266).
ISBN 9790004504901. 10 x 12.5 inches.
The editor, Engelbert Rontgen, writes in his foreword:Following a commission by the gentlemen Breitkopf & Hartel in Leipzig to produce a complete edition of Beethoven's string quartets supplied with bowing marks and fingerings, I undertook this task on the basis of the critical complete edition of these quartets, published in 1862. First of all, it seemed necessary to change the original slurring in some places to suit the bowing technique, with regard to performing and expression.In the quartets from Beethoven's early period, the performing marks often lack the accuracy and completeness that is required for an exact interplay, whereas they are given in the quartets of his later period almost everywhere with the greatest detail and precision, . Furthermore, the before mentioned scores contain a number of mistakes, which in all likelihood may have crept into the manuscripts as writing mistakes.I have therefore endeavored to carefully add the missing performing marks, as well as to correct the incorrect notes, without, however, claiming to have done everything that is questionable.Breitkopf Originals invite you to take a fresh look at 19th-century reception history.The music is printed clearly and in a larger than usual size.(Rebekah Smith, AUSTA Stringendo)The Breitkopf Originals series opens up a fascinating view into the Breitkopf & Hartel publishing-house archives. The focus is on its rarities and treasures, together with milestones in the history of interpretation for works of the Classical and Romantic repertoire, presented by the most prominent artists of their time.
SKU: BR.SON-634
ISBN 9790004803691. 9 x 12 inches.
Sibelius's oeuvre contains four string quartets. They appeared over a long time span and in different phases of his professional career. Most of his early compositions were chamber music, and he composed his three earliest quartets (in E flat major (JS 184, 1885), A minor (JS 183, 1889), B flat major (Op. 4, 1890)) around his study years. They remained unprinted during his lifetime, and the string quartet in E flat major was also not performed in public. The quartet in D minor Voces intimae op. 56, on the other hand, was completed in London in the spring of 1909, and Sibelius wrote to his wife Aino: It became wonderful. Just the kind that raises a smile on one's face even at the moment of death. Voces intimae was published in the same year. Even later, Sibelius seemed to be very satisfied with his composition, for he wrote in his diary: It is generally claimed to be my best work. I do not think quite that, but it does belong among my best ones..
SKU: BR.KM-2418
World premiere of the complete version: Witten, April 27, 1991
ISBN 9790004501887. 10.5 x 14 inches.
There are two versions of this piece (two ways to perform it):- as a quartet- for two quartets playing simultaneously. In the latter case, the two quartets divide the staves of the page of a score in such a way that one quartet always plays the upper stave, the other quartet the lower. One of the two quartets can be taped beforehand in case it is impossible to make use of two quartets.(Adriana Holszky)CDs:Hangebrucken- Quartett I - Quartett II- DoppelquartettNomos-Quartett; Pellegrini-QuartettCD cpo 999 112-2Bibliography:Blumentaler, Volker: Adriana Holszky; Hangebrucken, in: Streifzuge. Werkkommentare zur Neuen Musik, Saarbrucken 2000, pp. 74-78.Brodsky, Seth: From 1989, or European Music and the Modernist Unconscious, Oakland: University of California Press 2017, pp. 164-166, 262f.Hiekel, Jorn Peter: Antiklassisches, Rauschhaftes, Groteskes. Uberlegungen zu den Werken Hangebrucken und Message, in: Adriana Holszky, hrsg. von Eva-Maria Houben, Saarbrucken 2000, pp. 69-80.ders.: Fremdheit und Vertrautheit. Strategien der Wiederverwendung im Komponieren von Adriana Holszky, in: Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik 178 (2017), Heft 5, pp. 26-29.Holszky, Adriana: Wandernde Klangraume und die Korperlichkeit des Klanges, in: Neue Rundschau 132 (2021), Heft 1, S. 146-158Nonnenmann, Rainer: Die Quadratur des musikalischen Kreises. Aspekte des Streichquartettschaffens im einundzwanzigsten Jahrhundert, in: MusikTexte Heft 162 (August 2019), S. 91-98Schafer-Lembeck, Hans-Ulrich: Du baust dir eine Stadt . Uberlegungen zu Asthetik und Didaktik von Adriana Holszkys Hangebrucken, in: Neue Musik vermitteln. Analysen Interpretationen - Unterricht, hrsg. von Hans Bassler, Ortwin Nimczik und Peter W. Schatt, Mainz: Schott, 2004, pp. 265-285.Zeitler, Ulrich: Hangebrucken - Brucken zur Vergangenheit?, in: Musik und Unterricht 16 (1992), pp. 37-42.Zenck, Martin: Internationalitat und nationale Romantik im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Zur Schubert-Rezeption in zwei Jahrhunderten, in: Archiv fur Musikwissenschaft 67 (2010), Heft 4, pp. 261-283.World premiere of the complete version: Witten, April 27, 1991.
SKU: BR.EB-9259
World premiere: Stockholm (Festival O/MODERNT), June 19, 2017
ISBN 9790004185599. 9 x 12 inches.
When Hugo Ticciati asked me to write a new piece for his quartet, I was immediately enthusiastic about this project. I love how Hugo and his O/MODERNT String Quartet unite old and new music in a completely natural way. So, I was absolutely excited about Hugo`s idea of having my piece based on two of my idols, Bach and Beethoven, deconstructing the one and constructing the other. With all my respect for these great composers I gave to the piece a very personal inner part consisting of my own music that influenced and inspired the other parts. For the whole piece I felt very close to Beethoven, who said: To make a fugue is not art, which [is something] I have made dozens of times in my study. But the imagination will assert its rights and must come today, in light of the old traditional form, to another truly poetic element. De/Con is a travel into different centuries with different sound-languages. For me, it was like having a wonderful constructive discussion with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven, each of us trying to speak our own language, approaching the others step by step. The piece could be defined as a Love Letter to two of the greatest composers ever. De/Con could be preceded by (parts of) Johann Sebastian Bach's Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of the Fugue) and succeeded by Ludwig van Beethoven's Grosse Fuge (Great Fugue). Ideally, then, all parts should be played attacca. It could, but it hasn't to be played with these two pieces. (Manuela Kerer)World premiere: Stockholm (Festival O/MODERNT), June 19, 2017.
SKU: BR.EB-9260
ISBN 9790004185605. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-14614-27
The study score (Studien-Edition) is available at G. Henle Verlag.
ISBN 9790004343593. 10 x 12.5 inches.
The genesis of Beethoven's 4th symphony came at an extraordinary time for the composer not only regarding productivity: Thus, in 1806 he composed, among other things, the 4th piano concerto, the three Rasumovsky string quartets op. 59, the 32 piano variations in c minor WoO 80, as well as the violin concerto op. 61. The first performance of the B-flat-major symphony occurred in March 1807 at one of the two noteworthy subscription concerts conducted by Beethoven in the Palais Lobkowitz in Vienna. In the course of time, this intellectually-stimulating work- so described by one of the reviewers of the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung - found ever-increasing appeal. Throughout the entire 19th century this symphony ranked with the best-loved and most frequently performed works; its popularity spread to England where the London Philharmonic Society played it at least 25 times in the period between 1813 and 1850.Extant are only a few drafts of the 4th symphony. The autograph served as the main source for the present edition edited by Prof. Bathia Churgin, likewise editor of the 3rd symphony in the new Beethoven Complete Edition. Consulted as reference sources were copies of the score and orchestral parts as well as the original edition of the parts.
SKU: BR.OB-14614-23
ISBN 9790004343586. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-14614-19
ISBN 9790004343579. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-14614-30
ISBN 9790004343609. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-14614-15
ISBN 9790004343555. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.PB-14614
ISBN 9790004214893. 10 x 12.5 inches.