Asplmayr: Six Quatuors Concertantes, Op. 2
Series: Classical Era Publisher: A-R Editions
Six Quatuors Concertantes, Opus 2
Edited by Dennis Monk
C056 Asplmayr: Six Quatuors Concertantes, Op. 2
978-0-89579-441-3
Full Score (1999)
9x12, x + 85 pp.
$47.00
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C056
Performance Parts (Available Separately)
C056P
Instrumental Part(s) (1999)
Set of 4 parts (vn. 1; vn. 2; va.; vc.)
$53.00
Franz Asplmayr was a prolific composer and prominent professional violinist in Vienna during the eighteenth century. His collaboration with the choreographer Jean George Noverre resulted in several groundbreaking ballets, and Asplmayr also composed numerous string quartets, symphonies, string trios, and partitas. His works were performed in distinguished venues and were widely disseminated both in manuscript and in printed form. In spite of his position in the musical life of Vienna his work has been largely ignored by modern musicologists and, perhaps worse, many serious errors about his life and works have been uncritically repeated. The string quartets in this volume, composed before Haydn's Opus 9 quartets, represent an important stage in the development of the genre. Though first published in Paris, these quartets anticipated many of the most important style characteristics of the developing Viennese style, a style which has been greatly misunderstood in the shadow of Moazart and Haydn.
String Quartet in G Major, op. 2, no. 1
Tempo giusto
Menuetto
Andante poco adagio
Allegro assai
String Quartet in D Major, op. 2, no. 2
Vivace
Minuetto mezza voce
Andante cantabile
Allegro ma poco
String Quartet in F Major, op. 2, no. 3
Allegro
Minuetto mezza voce
Andante cantabile
Allegro moderato
String Quartet in E Major, op. 2, no. 4
Allegretto
Minuetto
Andante poco adagio
Allegro assai
String Quartet in C Major, op. 2, no. 5
Vivace
Minuetto mezza voce
Andante poco adagio
Allegro
String Quartet in E-flat Major, op. 2, no. 6
Allegro moderato
Menuetto mezza voce, Allegretto
Andante poco adagio
Allegro assai
L.F., American String Teacher, May 2000