Tango
composer: Igor Stravinsky
arranger: Wolfgang Birtel
arranged for string quartet by Wolfgang Birtel (2010)
Instrumentation: string quartet
Publisher: Schott Music
Year of composition: 1940
Difficulty: intermediate
Edition: score and parts
22 Pages - Saddle stitching
ISMN: 979-0-001-17300-1
Order number: ED 20919
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Igor Stravinsky liked to use different stylistic devices or embedded them in his personal musical language: Be it that he took a Gallop by Jacques Offenbach or composed Circus Polka for a Young Elephant or a ragtime. After the outbreak of the Second World War and his final move to the USA in 1939, he was in particular influenced by jazz music. In 1940 the composer wrote a Tango for piano which he arranged for chamber music ensemble in 1953: It is a strictly structured three-part tango on which Stravinsky imposed his harmony, his musical language. Arranged for string quartet by Wolfgang Birtel, the work is a perfect addition to the classical concert repertoire but also an entertaining, yet demanding musical piece for playing chamber music at home.
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