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Schumann, Robert: String Quartets op. 41 1-3

pocket score

Setting: String Quartet
Period: Romantic
Length: 144 pages
Weight: 0.284 kg
Published: 2015
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN9873
Other reference: HN 9873
ISMN: 9790201898735
Although Schumann's first attempts at composing for this supreme form of chamber music in 1838-1839 were only fragments, the three String Quartets Op. 41 in A minor, F Major and A Major were written in one go in June/July 1842. Atthe first private performances the audience was enthusiastic and it was Mendelssohn's praise in particular that occasioned Schumann to dedicate the new works to him. The composer wrote to his publisher in an appropriatelyconfident manner: Be assured, I have spared no pa
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