Category Archives: string quartet

On the first version of Verdi’s string quartet – interview with Anselm Gerhard

Posted on May 8, 2023 by Peter Jost

Our recently published new edition of Giuseppe Verdi’s String Quartet … Continue reading →

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Bartók’s String Quartets: from the score to the individual parts

Posted on November 28, 2022 by Annette Oppermann

A quintessential feature of the Henle Urtext editions is the … Continue reading →

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“An expression of his deeply shaken soul” – Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s String Quartet in F minor on the 175th anniversary of his death

Posted on November 14, 2022 by Dominik Rahmer

Our Henle blog this year has largely dealt with two … Continue reading →

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Newly discovered 20th-century classics: Bartók’s six String Quartets in the Complete Edition

Posted on September 19, 2022 by Annette Oppermann

The Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition that since 2017 the … Continue reading →

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From the First to the Second Vienna School: 20th-century string quartets in the Henle catalogue

Posted on July 19, 2022 by Dominik Rahmer

Henle is dedicating 2022 to a specific genre: under the … Continue reading →

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Four parts, many questions: on the editing of string quartets

Posted on March 28, 2022 by Annette Oppermann

Well-disposed visitors to our various digital platforms already know that … Continue reading →

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Attempt at re-dating Mozart’s three popular “Quartet-Divertimenti”, K. 136–138

Posted on May 10, 2021 by Wolf-Dieter Seiffert

In conjunction with my Urtextausgabe of the well-known and much-played … Continue reading →

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“Bozen this pigsty”. Why there’s no “Bozen string quartet” by Mozart.

Posted on February 2, 2021 by Wolf-Dieter Seiffert

When for the third and last time at the end … Continue reading →

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An insightful correction in Mozart’s autograph of the String Quartet in C major K. 170

Posted on July 22, 2019 by Wolf-Dieter Seiffert

In a few weeks a long-cherished dream of mine will … Continue reading →

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An unaccountable (?) fermata notation in Mozart’s string quartet K. 428

Posted on January 7, 2019 by Wolf-Dieter Seiffert

That Mozart, when writing carefully, graphically distinguishes between the dot … Continue reading →

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