Erwin Schulhoff - String Quartet No. 1

[@RosabelVerde]

Listening to this string quartet again after a couple of years I find myself again deeply in love with it. In a way I cannot explain (I'm not a musician) it feels absolutely like MY music. Magical.

[@ronanapcar]

love the use of harmonics throughout the piece

[@evanottervanger5394]

Love the energy of the first movement

[@guidofazzito]

I´m impressed... this is really very fucking-ultra-mega-master good. There aren´t many strange notations, the variations and ambiences are simple but incredibly powerful and well elaborated. Very precise musicians and the composer is the jackpot. what a wonderful piece!

[@yttrium55]

thanks for posting this. wonderful music.

[@nostalgicmodernist1399]

What a wonderful and mysterious closing ....

[@Puzzles32]

Sheesh this is amazing to listen & read

[@geraldmoore2681]

A very skilled composer, ,masterful quartet,,,,

[@palomaschall3984]

ridiculously amazing

[@johnzielinski9951]

Masterful writing, full of invention and Eastern European pathos. Thank you for the video!

[@oskarjärvinen]

00:01 to 15:06 is my favourite part! 😝 I really love this quartet!

[@dennischiapello7243]

I like that part, too. But then it's like the composer lost interest and it just stops. ;*)

[@jadetree]

holy third movement OMG SO AMAZING

[@harryandruschak2843]

First time I have heard this work, or even this composer Thank you for this upload :).

[@Examantel]

The last movement has the perfect amount of dissonance. Eerie without being over-the-top.

[@SuonoReale]

Thank you for posting this! I never hear of this composer before!

[@artofmusic303]

This composer really should be more widely known. How about that strange last movement? Wow.

[@zaraak323i]

That was exactly my reaction! WOW!

[@MrOrenledmusic]

What a wonderful quartet. The last movement was fantastic!

[@blackerface9685]

Ah, so many striking & remarkable features! But the passage that really floors me runs from 4:02 to 4:16. The way that time dissolves, the prolongation & fragmentation of the cello's melodic line, coincident with the settled stability of the violin's final repeated harmonized figures, the way it all evaporates into nothing after so much ado up to that point... it's a sublime moment for me, glimpse of something elemental, something totally ineffable that sends chills down my spine every time. A beautiful piece through and through, but I felt compelled to share that in particular.

[@dennischiapello7243]

It rather foreshadows the last pages of the last movement, doesn't it? Very haunting.

[@SergioSP2295]

With any doubt, this is one of my favourites quartets

[@ivainsencher]

got across this jewel yesterday, with quarteto libertas, chez F.E.A.-BH. simply superb. and the history shall not be forgotten!

[@MissEllieRigby]

Brilliant. Thanks for the upload!

[@kuang-licheng402]

fantastic

[@Alix777.]

Magnificient. Thx

[@robertfeuerstein8280]

One my favorite interwar period composers.

[@quatuormedvedkine1893]

Great Composer!

[@aprilh3882]

masterpiece from a truly great human being

[@hervich]

marvelous

[@ينالشام]

Nice music !

[@Bogdan0173]

Great !

[@jinoyann2140]

amazing..

[@jaschaheifetz460]

Such a great composer. Can't belive that the Nazis killed him.

[@bensilverman9105]

Wow! Never heard anything like this before. Borrows from nobody. Totally original. Deserves to be heard. What's his other music like?

[@ericgorsira8172]

first time i hear this. although i knew the name. Eye opener. i love the modern classical sound. beautifull but very difficult. wasnt he killed .?

[@zekemorgancomposer]

He died of tuberculosis in a Nazi concentration camp.

[@zekemorgancomposer]

It's like he went through a transformation as he was writing the piece

[@temporality_]

Bring your child to be musically evaluated by Dvorak day!

[@NORMANLJ]

The score is published by UNIVERSAL EDITION.

[@Musicrafter12]

I think composers like Stravinsky went WAY too far in throwing out the old "classical" ideas. This quartet is refreshingly new, yet still comprehensible.

[@FanGali]

hmmm... this is a bit reductive of Stravinsky's work. I dont think he rejected that much of the "classical ideas"(whatever this is :D), he just had a (very) particular way of restructuring things. Some went definitely too far, but Stravinsky invented so much. Still agree this Schuloff is very interesting and easy to catch.

[@sallywituszynski8412]

Where can I find the sheet music for this quartet?

[@sallywituszynski8412]

Never mind; I found the answer further down in the comments. Thank you.

[@jesusmauryvargas8971]

Does anyone have the score? I can't find it anywhere

[@Octavestorm]

I posted all the Schulhoff scores I am able to find here: www.mediafire.com/folder/pw7b467b6bdfv/Schulhoff%2C_E

[@noreply7892]

Octavestorm thanks alot you are a lifesaver!

[@aidanf8632]

Octavestorm are these pieces still under copyright? If not I can upload them to imslp for you.

[@RosabelVerde]

I wish that one of the as yet 19 users who gave this piece a thumbs down would explain what's wrong with this music in their opinion?

[@Labratas123]

good

[@oskarjärvinen]

Sorry, but it is an absolute no go to put two advertisements in the middle of this wonderful piece.. it destroys the whole atmosphere.

[@neo-eclesiastul9386]

11:57 - 12:08 if he had developed that somehow else

[@sonjamuller2846]

Diese Art der Musik ist mir viel zu unruhig! Sorry.