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String quartet - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q6172 Composed by Joerg Widmann. This edition: score and parts. Downloadable, Score and parts. Duration 14 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q6172. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q6172). The five strings quartets by Jörg Widmann are compact studies, like those of his teacher Wolfgang Rihm. Performed individually, the focus is on the respective central technical and aesthetic idea. Performed as a cycle, however, they get closer to the well-known classical multi-movement form. The theme of the first string quartet is the quintessential beginning: in an introduction, it takes some time for the strained sounds to turn into harmonics. Then it is the viola, the 'poor cousin' in the string quartet literature, which takes up and defines the musical work. The work concludes with a demanding eight-part double-stopping polyphony of all instruments.Comme ceux de son professeur Wolfgang Rihm, les cinq quatuors à cordes de Widman se présentent sous forme de courtes études. Exécutés séparément, l'idée centrale technique et esthétique de chacun d'eux se retrouve au premier plan. En cycle, ils se rapprochent de la forme classique en plusieurs mouvements. About Digital Downloads Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music, you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and you don’t have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play! PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).