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String Quartet No. 2

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Product number: ED 31095
Edition: Score and parts
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Following the première of my opera An American Tragedy at the Metropolitan Opera, the President of the Manhattan School of Music, Robert Sirota, called me and told me that the American String Quartet had asked him to commission me as part of the school’s 90th anniversary celebration. I was very excited because this meant that the first new music I would compose after my largest piece ever would be a string quartet for my alma mater. I embraced the chance to return to chamber music with gusto because I saw this not only as an opportunity to incorporate everything I’d learned writing four grand operas into an intimate yet profound genre but also as the starting point of a new direction in my compositional thinking. 20 years separate my first and second quartet and it is not difficult to hear the evolution between the two. Tobias Picker

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More Information

Title:
String Quartet No. 2
Edition:
Score and parts
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
2008
Duration:
13 ′
World Premiere:
January 17, 2009 · New York, NY (USA)
92nd Street Y, Kaufmann Concert Hall
American String Quartet

Commissioned work :
Commissioned by Ruth Widder for Manhattan School of Music and the American String Quartet

Technical Details

Product number:
ED 31095
ISMN13:
979-0-800011-73-3
ISBN13:
978-1-62721-097-3
UPC:
888680656539
Weight:
0,34 kg
Pages:
98
Binding:
Folder
Delivery rights:
Worldwide

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  • String Quartet No. 2
    Orchestra: Mimesis Ensemble
    October 5, 2009 | New York, NY (United States of America) , Le Poisson Rouge
  • String Quartet No. 2
    January 17, 2009 | New York, NY (United States of America) , 92nd Street Y, Kaufmann Concert Hall — World Premiere
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