Sibelius: String Quartets
Composer: Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Format: Full Score Instrumentation: String Quartet (Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Cello) Binding: Hardcover ISMN: 9790004803691 Size: 9.1 x 12.0 inches Pages: 328 Look Inside! PDF Preview Description 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 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 oneʼs face even at the moment of death." Voces intimae was published