String Quartet No. 2
Score and Parts
by Paul Dessau
String Quartet - Sheet Music

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String Quartet - difficult

SKU: HL.49033198

Score and Parts. Composed by Paul Dessau. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Edition Schott. Classical. Score and Parts. Composed 1942-1943. 114 pages. Duration 25'. Schott Music #ED9618. Published by Schott Music (HL.49033198).

ISBN 9790001134903. UPC: 073999663549. 9.0x12.0x0.335 inches.

Although Paul Dessau's Second String Quartet is very closely related to twelve-note music, it cannot be said to owe its inspiration to the serial method in the strictest sense. Rene Leibowitz had introduced the composer to the fascinating world of Schoenberg's twelve-note music during his first period of exile in Paris. With this String Quartet Dessau then worked out his own way of playing with the aesthetics of modern composition. Dessau works dodecaphonic constructions into the two lengthy movements - Andante con tenerezza and Adagio - without imposing them in dogmatic fashion. Disciplined thematic work is developed in a densely polyphonic setting to create a tightly structured landscape of laconic sententiousness.