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Chamber Music: Volume 1
Contributor(s): Verdi, Giuseppe (Author), Kreuzer, Gundula (Editor), Kreuzer, Gundula (Introduction by)
ISBN: 0226853012     ISBN-13: 9780226853017
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
OUR PRICE:   $141.57  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Music | Genres & Styles - Chamber
- Music | Printed Music - Opera & Classical Scores
Dewey: 780
Series: Works of Giuseppe Verdi, Series V: Chamber Music
Physical Information: 2" H x 11.4" W x 17.3" (5.10 lbs) 120 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
Once Verdi had become Italy's preeminent opera composer, he created only a few compositions for instrumental soloists, most notably the String Quartet in E Minor. He originally wanted to keep the string quartet--which was first performed in his hotel for a few friends--private, but eventually he allowed its publication and it soon became well known all over Europe and the United States. Though several recordings are available and the piece is regularly featured in performances, all of them use later editions that do not live up to Verdi's intentions as recorded in his autograph score. This critical edition is based on that score, preserved at the Naples conservatory library, and the composer's own instructions for performance.

Verdi wrote as gifts for admirers the three original piano pieces--"Romance sans paroles," "Valzer," and "Album Leaf for Francesco Florimo"--also included here, and these critical editions are based on the autograph scores or, in the case of "Romance sans paroles," on photographs of the never-released original. Editor Gundula Kreuzer details the origins, sources, and performance questions of all these works in her skillful introduction, and her critical commentary explains editorial problems and solutions.

The instrumental parts are also available as Quartetto (1873): Four Parts for String Quartet (ISBN 978-0-226-85321-5), extracted from this full score.