SKU: BE.BEL-1078
SKU: HL.49006699
ISBN 9790001072441. 9.0x12.0x0.068 inches.
Den wachsenden Trend zur Kammermusik vor allem junger Spieler kommt diese Sammlung einzelner leichter Quartettsatze aus Vorklassik, Klassik, Romantik und neuerer Musik entgegen. Partitur und Stimmen enthalten Spielhilfen. Eine nutzliche Ausgabe fur den Kammermusikunterricht.
SKU: HL.49006697
ISBN 9790001072427. 9.0x12.0x0.289 inches.
SKU: HL.49006700
ISBN 9790001072458. 9.0x12.0x0.063 inches.
SKU: HL.49006698
ISBN 9790001072434. 9.0x12.0x0.068 inches.
SKU: HL.14031801
7.0x10.0x0.28 inches.
Sir Arthur Bliss (1891-1975) was a British composer and conductor. He studied under Wood and Stanford at Cambridge and the Royal College of Music, where he met and drew inspiration from Vaughan Williams, Holst, Howells, and Goossens. He was appointed Master of the Queen's Music in 1953 and wrote music for many state occasions, including the Coronation and the Funeral of Winston Churchill.
The String Quartet No.1 in Bb Major was first published in 1941. It was actually the third String Quartet Bliss composed, but the first two were early works which he withdrew or lost. It was written in America in 1940 and first performed inBerkeley, California; it became the last work he wrote before he returned to Britain to help the war effort.
SKU: HL.14023669
ISBN 9780711977570. 9.0x12.0x0.155 inches.
There are two primary ideas behind this composition, the first being to create and almost orchestral chamber music, the idea for this coming from a performance of the Grosse Fuge performed by the Arditti Quartet. The second idea was to excercise the impressive and oppresive history of the string quartet by making the work a compendium of quotations from quartet repertoire. Influence from Schoenberg can be heard in chromatic, harmonic sequences and modal/diatonic varioations are also actively displayed within the piece. The quartet is written with amplification in mind and it is the composer's preference that it is performed in this way. String Quartet No.1 is dedicated to the memory of Thurston Dart. It was commissioned by the Arditti Quartet and first performed by them on 23 September 1985, Warsaw. Duration 26 minutes. Instrumental parts are available on sale.