

Giuseppe Verdi
String Quartet e minor
The music world associates Verdi’s name so obviously with his operatic output that his contributions to other genres can easily be overlooked. His only chamber work owes its existence to an enforced break in Naples in spring 1873, when opera rehearsals had had to be postponed. To the astonishment of those around him, Verdi used the time to write a string quartet. Despite clearly orienting himself around the quartets of Viennese Classicism, Verdi succeeds here in making an independent and ingenious contribution to the genre. With its many melodic, harmonic and contrapuntal subtleties it leaves no doubt as to its author’s elevated compositional intentions.
This Henle Urtext edition is based on the Italian first edition, though important secondary sources such as the autograph score and the French first edition have also been consulted.
The study edition of this work also offers a minor sensation: the first-ever publication of the first version of this work that the editor discovered in Parma several years ago among Verdi’s so-called “Abbozzi” (= sketches, drafts and discarded parts of scores).
Read more about this edition in the Henle Blog.
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About the Composer

Giuseppe Verdi
The most significant Italian opera composer of the 19th century, Guiseppe Verdi dominated Italy’s opera stages for 50 years without competition. He was also a national symbol, with his name even becoming a catchword for Italian unification (Viva VERDI stands for Viva Vittorio Emanuele Re d’Italia). As a result, his early operas were increasingly interpreted in a political context and associated with Italian unification efforts. He primarily worked with the librettists Solera, Piave and Cammarano, later with Boito, and in Paris also with Scribe on “Les vêpres siciliennes”.
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