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Brahms, Johannes: String Quartets in c minor and a minor op. 51

(Reiser, Salome)

pocket score

Setting: String Quartet
Period: Romantic
Length: 98 pages
Weight: 0.201 kg
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN9040
Other reference: HN 9040
ISMN: 9790201890401
Brahms had already composed over 20 string quartets (he confessed to a friend that he had burnt all of that ''stuff'') before he finally presented his Opus 51 to the public. In the end only three surviving works managed to withstand his high self-criticism- numerous layers of corrections bear witness to his struggle with each detail. We are now publishing the two passionate dark Quartets op. 51 separately from the rather more lively Opus 67. The basis for this edition is the volume in the New Co
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