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String Quartet No. 8
(Beethoven-Study III)
String Quartet No. 8 captivates with three energetic movements. The first blends unison and cascading chords, while the second offers variations on Beethoven’s Alla danza tedesca. The lively Rondo-Presto finale is playful and full of energy.
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My String Quartet No. 8 is made up of three movements, and a fast tempo prevails almost throughout the entire work. The extreme brevity of the opening movement oscillates between rugged unisono passages and cascades of chords. The central movement is a set of variations based on the theme from the first eight bars of my beloved Alla danza tedesca, the enigmatic dance movement from Beethoven’s String Quartet op. 130. I have not written any explicit variations for many years. I feel as though the Beethoven theme has itself gone through a large number of transformations and is already teeming with exceptional rhythmic, melodic and harmonic features. I naturally take great pleasure in immersing myself in my variations with this permanent calling into question of assertions.
Although it has been a long-planned dream of mine to create something from this Beethoven theme, it is actually the final 3rd movement which has become the central and most extended section of the work: a Rondo-Presto which repeatedly becomes caught up, almost ad absurdum, in its own breathless playfulness. Jörg Widmann
Although it has been a long-planned dream of mine to create something from this Beethoven theme, it is actually the final 3rd movement which has become the central and most extended section of the work: a Rondo-Presto which repeatedly becomes caught up, almost ad absurdum, in its own breathless playfulness. Jörg Widmann
Content
I Allegro con brio
II Variationen über Beethovens "Alla danza tedesca" (op. 130/4)
III Rondo. Prestissimo
II Variationen über Beethovens "Alla danza tedesca" (op. 130/4)
III Rondo. Prestissimo
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Title:
String Quartet No. 8
(Beethoven-Study III)
Edition:
Score and parts
Level of difficulty:
difficult
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
2020
Duration:
16 ′0 ′′
Commissioned work :
Commissioned by The Juilliard String Quartet, The Juilliard School and The Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, sponsored by Walter Swap, with commissioning partners Green Music Center at Sonoma State University,Meany Center for the Performing Arts, Chamber Music Society In Napa Valley and Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam
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Title:
String Quartet No. 8
(Beethoven-Study III)
Edition:
Score and parts
Level of difficulty:
difficult
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
2020
Duration:
16 ′0 ′′
Commissioned work :
Commissioned by The Juilliard String Quartet, The Juilliard School and The Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, sponsored by Walter Swap, with commissioning partners Green Music Center at Sonoma State University,Meany Center for the Performing Arts, Chamber Music Society In Napa Valley and Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam
Series:
Keywords:
Title:
String Quartet No. 8
(Beethoven-Study III)
Edition:
Score and parts
Level of difficulty:
difficult
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
2020
Duration:
16 ′0 ′′
Commissioned work :
Commissioned by The Juilliard String Quartet, The Juilliard School and The Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, sponsored by Walter Swap, with commissioning partners Green Music Center at Sonoma State University,Meany Center for the Performing Arts, Chamber Music Society In Napa Valley and Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam
Series:
Keywords:
Technical Details
Product number:
ED 23349
ISMN13:
979-0-001-21178-9
Media Type:
Sheet music
Product number:
ED 23349
ISMN13:
979-0-001-21178-9
UPC:
842819113096
Weight:
0,57 kg
Pages:
152
Format:
23.1cm x 30.3cm
Binding:
Saddle-wire stitching
Delivery rights:
Worldwide
Manufacturer:
Media Type:
E-score PDF
Product number:
ED 23349 Q780759
ISMN13:
979-0-001-21178-9
Pages:
142
Format:
23.1cm x 30.3cm
File format:
(PDF / 3,31 MB)
Delivery rights:
Worldwide
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Highland Park, IL (Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika) , Martin Theatre
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Highland Park, IL (Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika) , Martin Theatre
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April 23, 2025 |
New York, NY (United States of America) , Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall
String Quartet No. 8
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Indianapolis, IN (United States of America) , Indiana History Center
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January 22, 2025 |
Berlin (Germany) , Barenboim-Said Akademie, Pierre Boulez Saal
String Quartet No. 8
January 20, 2025 |
London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Wigmore Hall
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Yellow Barn Summer Festival
July 31, 2024 |
Putney, VT (United States of America) , The Big Barn
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November 19, 2023 |
Wimbledon (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Wimbledon International Music Festival — National Premiere
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November 17, 2023 |
Niigata (Japan) , Niigata City Performing Arts Center "RYUTOPIA" Concert Hall — National Premiere
String Quartet No. 8
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Amsterdam (Netherlands) , Concertgebouw — National Premiere
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November 13, 2023 |
Bonn (Germany) , Beethovenhaus — National Premiere
String Quartet No. 8
November 30, 2022 |
New York, NY (United States of America) , Juilliard School
String Quartet No. 8
November 20, 2022 |
Rohnert Park, CA (United States of America) , Sonoma State University, Green Music Center
String Quartet No. 8
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Napa, CA (United States of America) , Chamber Music in Napa Valley
String Quartet No. 8
November 15, 2022 |
Seattle, WA (United States of America) , University of Washington, Meany Center for the Performing Arts
String Quartet No. 8
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Tucson, AZ (United States of America) , Leo Rich Theater — World Premiere
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