Pössinger: Three String Quartets, Op. 8

Name: Pössinger: Three String Quartets, Op. 8
SKU: N094
Price: 148.00 USD

Series: 19th and Early 20th Centuries Publisher: A-R Editions

This edition is part of the collection String Quartets in Beethoven's Europe

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Franz Alexander Pössinger

Three String Quartets, Op. 8

Edited by Sam Girling

N094 Pössinger: Three String Quartets, Op. 8

978-1-9872-0912-9 Full Score (2024) 9x12, xiii + 115 pp.

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Pössinger: Three String Quartets, Op. 8 (PARTS)

Instrumental Part(s) (2024)

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Abstract

Franz Alexander Pössinger (1766–1827) was a highly respected Viennese violinist, composer, and arranger who spent the majority of his life working for the opera orchestra of the Nationaltheater and later the Hoftheaterorchester. Among Pössinger’s yet-unstudied chamber music are four sets of string quartets. Despite forming a large part of his oeuvre, studies, editions, and recordings of his quartets have been notably lacking. This new edition of Pössinger’s three opus 8 quartets (in C minor, F major, and A major) aims to raise awareness of the composer’s work, which is often of a high standard: indeed, a contemporary review of the opus 8 quartets compared them favorably to the quartets of Mozart, Haydn, and Andreas Romberg. Moreover, Pössinger’s quartets reflect the complex and multifaceted nature of chamber music in Vienna during the age of Beethoven.

Contents

String Quartet No. 1 in C Minor

I. Allegro moderato

II. Menuetto: Allegretto

III. Larghetto

IV. Finale: Allegro

String Quartet No. 2 in F Major

I. Allegro vivace

II. Menuetto: Allegretto

III. Andante con espressione

IV. Rondo: Allegro

String Quartet No. 3 in A Major

I. Allegro con brio

II. Menuetto: Moderato

III. Adagio

IV. Allegretto

Bio

Sam Girling is a DAAD-funded research fellow at the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn. He completed his doctoral studies at the University of Auckland in 2018, for which he studied the sociopolitical context of unconventional (and hitherto unknown) works for percussion ca. 1800. In 2018 he started a postdoctoral project with Nancy November on string quartet culture in Beethoven’s Europe, giving particular attention to works by the French composer Pierre Rode. His current research concerns the chamber music of Franz Alexander Pössinger, particularly his arrangements of popular operatic works in the early nineteenth century.

Recent publications include a chapter on Clementi’s Waltzes Opp. 38–39, an article on the significance of the tambourine for women musicians in the early nineteenth-century salon, an article on the role of folk instruments in early nineteenth-century Austrian and Bohemian courts, and a chapter on Beethoven’s percussion writing in the Ninth Symphony.

Sam continues to lecture on a variety of music theory and history topics at the University of Auckland. He has given pre-concert talks for the Auckland Philharmonia and recently gave an interview on the music of John Abraham Fisher for BBC Radio 3.