Gustav Mahler
Piano Quartet a minor
The name Mahler is so closely associated with the symphony and Lied genres that it is little known how intensively he applied himself to chamber music during his studies. Of his numerous attempts in this field only one piano quartet composed between 1876 and 1878 has survived – and of this merely the first movement in its entirety. The latter was only rediscovered in the 1960s and first published in 1973. Even if Brahms is unmistakably his model, the quartet movement contains enough individual and also unconventional elements – such as the almost symphonic treatment of the piano – for us to incorporate it into our Urtext ranks. In addition, we have included an appendix “for study purposes” with Mahler’s fragmentary sketch for a further movement, a scherzo for the same instrumentation.
About the Composer
Gustav Mahler
The oeuvre of this important Austrian composer and conductor is concentrated upon the genres of the art song and symphony as well as their interplay (vocal movements in Symphonies No. 2 through No. 4) and synthesis (Das Lied von der Erde). His manner of composition is marked by a fragmentation based on the disassociation of patterns and idioms. Through movement titles and (later withdrawn) programs, as well as his statements, his symphonies are regarded as ideological music.
About the Authors
Klaus Schilde (Fingering)
Schilde won numerous prizes. From 1947 onwards he gave concerts as a soloist and chamber musician on almost every single continent with renowned orchestras. He taught at the music conservatories in East Berlin Detmold, West Berlin, Munich, Tokyo (Geidai) and Weimar. From 1988–1991 he was President of the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich, where he
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