Volume / Series: BÄRENREITER URTEXT

Editor: Strucken-Paland, Christiane

Language: English/German

Pages: 78

Publisher: Barenreiter

César Franck's string quartet was completed and premiered in 1890 shortly before the composer's death. He did not live to see the work published. Now Bärenreiter, in collaboration with the “Association Internationale César Franck”, presents the string quartet in a scholarly-critical edition for the first time. This publication is based on the first edition, the engraver's copy used for the first edition, and the sketches with many deleted attempts containing an early version of the first movement as well as a copy of the autograph. Franck's letters and a series of manuscript parts he produced for Eugene Ysaÿe's string quartet have also been taken into account.

In her preface, editor Christine Strucken-Paland describes the significance of the string quartet for the musical life of Paris at the end of the 19th century.