Joachim Raff (1822 – 1882)
String Quartets No. 1 op. 77 and No. 2 op. 90
D minor and A major
2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
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Details
- For
- 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
- Product Type
- Study score (Urtext edition)
- Author / Composer
- Joachim Raff
- Editor
- Stefan König, Severin Kolb
- Product number
- 691806
- Release Year
- 2018
Description
With his first String Quartet in D minor, op. 77, composed in 1855, the native Swiss composer Joachim Raff bid a brilliant farewell to Weimar. He had been there as Franz Liszt’s assistant since 1850 and had made a name for himself in the city’s art scene – now he embarked on new paths. He composed his second Quartet in A major, op. 90, already in 1857 in Wiesbaden, the spa town that was to become his home for 21 years.
The two quartets are unequivocal works: orchestrally-conceived, full of en...