20th Century. Study score. For a matching set of parts, (sold separately), please see item 132125. Alexander Zemlinsky's music was long unjustly overshadowed by what was regarded as the "more progressive" Second Viennese School. Although Zemlinsky was close friends with its protagonist Arnold Sch”nberg, he never did take the latter's radical step intododecaphony. At the same time, he composed works that were no less original or fully fledged. Composed between 1913 and 1915, his Second String Qua...
21st Century (2013). When the family heirs to the legendary Galimir String Quartet (three sisters and a brother) gathered to commemorate the centenary birth years of these famed performers, they chose Ellen Taaffe Zwilich to commission for this honor. The composer, who has also worked professionally as a violinist, responded with a one-movement odyssey entitled Voyage, cross-breeding her own characteristic style with glimpses of Viennese waltzes and other Galimir flavor. -the publisher "There is...