String Quartets Op. 44, No. 1-3

Study Score
Spirited, dramatic, highly expressive, and masterly are among the comments made upon Mendelssohn’s String Quartets op. 44 nos 1-3. He wrote them in 1837/1838, at a very happy time: he had just married, was becoming world famous, and had been appointed director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Concerts, one of the highest positions in the German musical world at that time. The quartets were written in the order 2 (in E minor), 3 (in E flat Major) and 1 (in D Major). Mendelssohn himself considered the Quartet in D Major as his best – perhaps a reason why he placed it at the beginning of the collection.

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SKU: 51489443
UPC: 884088183851
Series: Henle Study Scores
Format: Study Score
Page Count: 192
Contributors: (ed. Ernst Herttrich)