Fabian Müller composed his Third String Quartet for the Nathan Quartet from Hamburg, with whom he and his wife, the cellist Pi-Chin Chien, have been closely connected for many years. Significant portions of the work were created in the autumn of 2010 in Taiwan, where the couple spent several months as guest lecturers. For Müller, the emergence of initial ideas, sketches, and written notes remains a mystery—an unspectacular one, as the ideas simply appear out of nowhere. Sometimes a thought, a f...

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