Biblioteca del Conservatorio di Musica di Vicenza “Arrigo Pedrollo”

Abstract: Maurice Ravel’s sole composition for string quartet dating from 1903 is considered today to be one of the most important, most performed and recorded works of the chamber music repertoire. The editor Juliette Appold , traces the work's inception and documents its first performance and the reactions to it from none other than Fauré and Debussy. Also addressed are later performances of the work under the supervision of Ravel, the early recordings made under Ravel’s auspices and the first publication by Astruc . This first ever critical edition of Ravel’s quartet relies not only on the Astruc edition and its proofs, corrected and altered by the composer, but also on the revised edition issued by Durand in 1910. Needless to say all discrepancies between the score and the later publication of the performing parts are addressed in the Critical Commentary. - First Critical Edition of this masterpiece - Critical Commentary with facsimiles (Eng) - Meticulously laid out performance parts EDITORIALE

Abstract: An expressive work, based on societal needs of having to enforce incessantly. The musical language is inspired by the intensive study of Beethoven, at the same time progressively and independent. Ethel Smyth studied composition with Carl Reinecke at the Leipzig Conservatory, when she wrotes her string quartet in C minor. It is inspired by the study of Beethoven‘s chamber music. EDITORIALE