String Quartets, Vol. IV, Op. 20 (Sun Quartets)
Set of Parts (Edition without fingering)
by Franz Joseph Haydn
String Quartet - Sheet Music

Chamber Ensemble String Quartet (2 Violins, Viola, Violoncello)

SKU: HL.51480208

Set of Parts (Edition without fingering). Composed by Franz Joseph Haydn. Edited by Georg Feder. Sheet Music. Paperbound. Henle Music Folios. Pages: Vl I Part = 39 * Vl II Part = 35 * Va Part = 35 * Vc Part = 31. Classical. Softcover. 144 pages. G. Henle #HN208. Published by G. Henle (HL.51480208).

ISBN 9790201802084. UPC: 884088174095. 9.25x12.25x0.481 inches.

The study edition complements the parts of the String Quartets op. 20 that have already been published in Henle Urtext (HN 208); a new preface by Christin Heitmann provides illuminating background information. Haydn did not assign the nickname “Sun Quartets”: it alludes to an edition of the time, in which the title page was decorated with a rising sun. The Quartets op. 20 are the last series in a group of earlier string quartets, but are clearly ahead of their time. The demanding fugues which close three of the six quartets are a particular structural feature.

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