Julien Navoigille String Quartet in Eb Score Transcript

Julien Navoigille (ca.1749 — 19 November 1831) is French composer. He wrote six string quartet concertante in Opus 3. This is one of his string quartet movement that I re-transcript to Muse Score. The source is taken from imslp library under his name.

Here are the scores. I urge every string quartet ensemble to play this and upload to Youtube so we can listen again these neglected string quartet. This is movement one of the quartet :

Julien Navoigille String Quartet in Eb Score Transcript

this score was played with Muse Player in this video :

I will upload the 2nd and 3rd movement soon after I re-notated it to Muse. At this moment, I will not share the original xml muse file, unless under certain circumstances.


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Geijer & Randel - Works for String Quartet - Norrköpingskvartetten

Composer : Erik Gustaf Geijer (12 January 1783 – 23 April 1847), Andreas Randel (6 October 1806–27 October 1864)
Performer : Norrköpingskvartetten
Label : Sterling
Release : January 2019
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This is a rarity. The two composers are : Erik Gustaf Geijer and Andreas Randel. Erik was a historian, poet, philosopher who happened to be a composer also. In his short wikipedia entry, it is listed two string quartet , in B and in F written by Erik. We have heard one of them now.

Andreal Randel was Swedish composer and violinist. His chamber music is now unearthed to be heard in 2019. Thanks God for the performer, Norrköpingskvartetten, who performed this for all of us.

The CD notes :
Geijer was one of the prominent figures in the formation of Götiska förbundet (The Geatish Society), who took the task of promoting archaeology, but also Swedish patriotism. As editor of the society’s magazine, he published his own poems in the spirit of the time and also his music settings of these. Geijer showed early a great talent for music and studied at times with different teachers. Although he seems to have considered to attempt a career in music, it remained an activity for spare time. His mind was for chamber music a nd the smaller format, as well as songs. In 1816 the first piano trio was created and in 1822 the first two string quartets in F Minor and B flat Major, a nd during the rest of the decade, among other things, a piano quintet, a piano quartet and two violin Sonatas. 

Geijer & Randel: Works for String Quartet

1. String Quartet No. 2 in B Flat Major: I. Allegro moderato assai 9:57
2. String Quartet No. 2 in B Flat Major: II. Molto vivace 5:03
3. String Quartet No. 2 in B Flat Major: III. Andante quasi 6:50
4. String Quartet No. 2 in B Flat Major: IV. Finale 9:56
5. String Quartet in F Minor: I. Allegro moderato 11:37
6. String Quartet in F Minor: II. Scherzo Vivace 6:54
7. String Quartet in F Minor: III. Adagio con espressivo 7:40
8. String Quartet in F Minor: IV. Allegro scherzando 7:57

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Bargiel - String Quartets & String Octet - Orpheus Quartet (2018)

Woldemar Bargiel (3 October 1828 – 23 February 1897)
Performer : Orpheus Quartet , Yume Sato (violin), Amane Horie (violin), Julia Rebekka Adler (viola), Eva Freitag (cello)
Label : CPO
Release : 2018
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Woldemar Bargiel was German composer. According to his timeline, he was living in the post famous string quartet where Beethoven's and Schubert's string quartet exist. It should be interesting to listen for another Germany composer string quartet from this era. There are four piece of string quartet and one string octet from this recording. They are recorded in the 2013 and 2016.

the CD notes:
Woldemar Bargiel was Clara Schumann's half-brother and Robert Schumann's brother-in-law. In the nineteenth century hardly any references failed to note these relational circumstances, surely more to Bargiel's disadvantage since it for many years led to his relegation to the 'second ranks'. It is only recently that the study of his private papers, which somehow miraculously managed to survive two world wars, has inspired increasing interest in his oeuvre. His papers include manuscripts as well as more than 1,500 letters demonstrating that he was a sought-after personality in the European music world. Moreover, in 2010 Dean Cáceres published a study based on analytic methods laying the foundation for what is an impressive demonstration of Bargiel's personal style – which the Orpheus Quartet now thoroughly confirms on its complete recording of the composer's string chamber music.

Bargiel: String Quartets Nos. 1-4 & String Octet

DISC 1
String Quartet No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 15b
1 I. Allegro ma non troppo 00:06:47
2 II. Allegretto commodo 00:02:48
3 III. Andante sostenuto 00:03:49
4 IV. Vivace ed energico 00:04:34
String Quartet No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 47
5 I. Molto moderato ma passionato 00:08:31
6 II. Andante 00:07:25
7 III. Allegro energico, impetuoso 00:06:14
8 IV. Allegro ma non troppo 00:07:54

DISC 2
String Octet in C Minor, Op. 15a
1 I. Adagio - Allegro passionato 00:18:23
2 II. Andante sostenuto - Allegro 00:07:10
3 III. Allegro 00:08:39
String Quartet No. 1
4 I. Allegro vivace 00:06:08
5 II. Andante con moto 00:03:21
6 III. Scherzo - Trio 00:02:53
7 IV. Finale. Presto 00:04:30
String Quartet No. 2
8 I. Allegro appasionato 00:09:04
9 II. Adagio 00:04:27
10 III. Scherzo - Trio 00:03:38
11 IV. Finale. Allegro vivace 00:05:25

Orpheus Quartet
Emile Cantor viola
Mark Gothoni violinist
Timothy Summers violinist
Laurentiu Sbarcea cello

Beecke: 2 String Quartets & Piano Quintet - Diogenes String Quartet (2019)

Ignaz von Beecke (1733-1803)
Performer: Diogenes String Quartet
Label : CPO
Release : January 2019

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As I aware, Ignaz von Beecke (1733-1803) has one popular string quartet recording under CPO label already. Those are three string quartets performed by Arioso-Quartet recorded way back to 1997. God bless us all and now there is another von Beecke's string quartet to be heard. The new string quartet was recorded by Diogenes String Quartet. In this CD there is one Piano Quintet in A Minor and two string quartet, in G Major and C Major. Now that I check, the G Major string quartet is different from Arioso's recording , so hurray another brand new string quartet for all of us.

This is the CD notes :
The lexicographers Gerber and Lipowsky vouched for Ignaz von Beecke’s fame as a pianist and composer during his times, but today, we regret to say, hardly anything of his former renown remains. And yet this musician, whose early creations continued to be obliged to the style galant but whose late oeuvre from the 1790s already began to open the door to romanticism, created works of great originality and considerable quality offering opportunities for rewarding new encounters in the concert hall or on sound carriers. Very substantial creations are also found in von Beecke’s string quartet oeuvre, and his quartets prove to be eloquent examples of his richly inventive compositional style, which again and again also tended toward unconventional solutions. The most interesting work among the pieces presented here, however, is his Piano Quintet. Although the piano gladly appears as a solo instrument here, the composer is concerned not so much with the display of technical brilliance; the coordinated effort of the entire musical ensemble occupies the foreground. 

Beecke: 2 String Quartets  Piano Quintet - Diogenes String Quartet (2019)

1.  Piano Quintet in A Minor: I. Allegro con affetto 00:11:22
2.  Piano Quintet in A Minor: II. Andante più tosto la 00:09:21
3.  Piano Quintet in A Minor: III. Allegretto 00:04:31
4.  String Quartet in G Major: I. Allegro 00:04:06
5.  String Quartet in G Major: II. Menuetto I - Trio 00:02:58
6.  String Quartet in G Major: III. Adagio 00:04:14
7.  String Quartet in G Major: IV. Menuetto II - Trio 00:01:26
8.  String Quartet in G Major: V. Presto 00:01:57
9.  String Quartet in C Major: I. Larghetto e maestoso 00:10:33
10.  String Quartet in C Major: II. Siciliana. Un poco 00:05:15
11.  String Quartet in C Major: III. Allegro 00:06:21

Diogenes String Quartet
Stefan Kirpal, violin
Gundula Kirpal, violin
Alba González i Becerra, viola
Stephen Ristau, cello

Veit: Complete String Quartets - Kertesz String Quartet (2018)

Composer : Wenzel Heinrich Veit (19 January 1806  - 16 February 1864)
Performer : Kertesz String Quartet
Label : Tocatta Classic
Date : July 2018

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Another unknown string quartet from early Romantic composer resurrected. This is from Czech composer, Wenzel Heinrich Veit (19 January 1806  - 16 February 1864). There are two volume of his string quartets being recorded by Kertesz Quartet from UK. This is indeed their world premiere recording of Veit's String Quartet.

You can listen to sample of Veit String Quartet in Kertesz String Quartet website HERE

As I listen to their sample, these are beautiful piece. The string quartet in D minor IV Finale Presto, provided an energetic piece. There is actually distinguished style from the composer which I really think not very much influence by his contemporary. There aren't Beethoven, Mendelssohn or Schubert attached to the music. This is quite original by itself.. The other quartet that in sample is String Quartet no. 2 in E Major, III. Scherzo movement. This one sound very grande as it is composed to be played in large concert room. I listen to this and feel like a big orchestra accompanying a scherzo dancing crowd. Very tasteful.

The two volume  of Wenzel Heinrich Veit are :

Vol. 1
String Quartet No.1 in D minor Op.3 (1834)
1. I. Allegro moderato 09:54
2. II. Menuetto: Allegretto 06:16
3. III. Hymne russe: Andante con moto 08:24
4. IV. Finale: Presto agitato 07:06

String Quartet No.2 in E major Op. 5 (1835)
5. I. Introduzione (Sostenuto) - Allegro vivace 09:37
6. II. Adagio cantabile quasi Andante 06:33
7. III. Scherzo: Presto 05:50
8. IV. Rondo: Allegro non tanto 08:41

Vol . 2
String Quartet No.3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 7 (1838)
1. I. Allegro moderato e patetico 09:50
2. II. Menuetto. Allegretto 05:40
3. III. Andante 07:30
4. IV. Finale. Allegro molto 09:12

String Quartet No.4 in G Min, Op.16 (1840)
5. I. Allegro molto ed appassionato 10:01
6. II. Menuetto. Allegretto ma non troppo 04:25
7. III. Adagio 10:14
8. IV. Allegro assai - Andante con moto (Air de Bohème) - Allegro assai 09:50

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Luigi Boccherini - String Quartets (2017) - Ensemble Trifolium

Luigi Boccherini (Lucca, 1743 - Madrid, 1805)
String Quartets
Performer : Ensemble Trifolium
Release : 2017
Label : Lindoro
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Ensemble Trifolium hailed from Spain recorded four Quartets of Luigi Boccherini in this recent CD. They are doing four popular works from Boccherini in Gm G205, in G "La Tirana" G223, in Gm G194 and in Cm G159.   You can hear it samples from this widget :



The CD notes translation :

The present recording allows to overthrow the myth of Luigi Boccherini (Lucca, 1743 - Madrid, 1805) as author of works of light tone, gallant and even superficial and brings us to a deeper facet of the composer, which runs parallel to the aesthetic- of the Central European Sturm und Drang.

Luigi Boccherini is an essential but controversial figure in the history of music in Spain. On the one hand, his birth in Lucca (Italy) marginalized him from the discourses elaborated by Spanish musicology with a nationalist tinge of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, despite the fact that most of his life and career are under the protection of Spanish institutions. In addition, the supposed Italian invasion that "contaminated" Spanish music throughout the eighteenth century also made it an uncomfortable figure to tackle. On the other hand, traditional historiography has considered Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) as the "inventor" of two instrumental genres of great importance in all later European music: the symphony and the string quartet. This supposed invention, which in reality consists in the adoption of a local model (the Viennese) as a universal (European) model of composition, helped to establish a German-centric canon that considered all other compositional traditions, among which the Italian-Spanish Boccherini, as less developed links. Popularly, the knowledge of Boccherini's music has been reduced to the celebrated minuet of his string quintet in Mi Mayor (G. 275) and his quintet titled La Musica Notturna delle strade di Madrid (G. 324). These pieces have portrayed the composer as a gallant and superficial author. Fortunately, numerous musicologists have worked on several facets of the life and work of Boccherini, offering a renewed image of the musician. This historiographical revision, along with the elaboration of the critical edition of his works, evidences the high quality and depth of his music and contradicts the idea of ​​the supposed isolation that Boccherini suffered in Spain.

Boccherini composed string quartets over forty years: his first opus (opus 2) was dated in 1761, while the last completed (opus 58) is from the year 1799. The four quartets chosen for this work present different chronologies. The earliest is dated in 1761, when Boccherini traveled to Vienna and to various Italian cities where he earned his living as an interpreter in orchestras or playing his own music. The two intermediate quartets were composed between 1778 and 1780, during his stay in Arenas de San Pedro (Avila) under the patronage of the infant Don Luis de Borbón (1727-1785). The later quartet is of the year 1792. After the death of Don Luis, Boccherini returned to Madrid, obtaining of Carlos III an annual pension for having been in the service of the infant. He also obtained the favor of other aristocratic patrons: he was appointed chamber composer of Prince Frederick William of Prussia, a position he held between 1786 and 1797, and worked as conductor and composer of the orchestra of the Duchess of Osuna and Benavente, Maria Josefa Alonso Pimentel (1750-1834), between March 1786 and December 1787.


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String Quartet in G minor Op. 32 no 5 (G. 205)
1 Allegro comodo 4’45’’
2 Andantino 3’58’’
3 Menuetto con moto 4’48’’
4 Allegro giusto 4’24’’

String Quartet in G Major "La Tirana" Op. 44 no 4 (G. 223)
5 Presto 5’02’’
6 Tempo di minueto 4’49’’

String Quartet in G minor Op. 24 no 6 (G. 194)
7 Allegro assai 5’29’’
8 Adagio 6’59’’
9 Menuetto 3’56’’

String Quartet in C minor Op. 2 no 1 (G. 159)
10 Allegro comodo 6’18’’
11 Largo 7’29’’
12 Allegro 5’55’’

Total time: 63’58”

Ensemble TRIFOLIUM

Carlos Gallifa, violín
Sergio Suárez, violín
Juan Mesana, viola
Javier Aguirre, violoncello

Franz Xaver Gebel - String Quintet and Cello Sonata (2017)

Franz Xaver Gebel (1787-1843)
Performers : Hoffmeister String Quartet, Beni Araki (Piano), Martin Seeman (Cello)
Label : Profil
Release : January 2017
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We already have the Hoffmeister String Quartet doing Franz Xaver Gebel string quartet in this recording back in 2015. As for this new CD, Hoffmeister Quartet continue to dig FX Gebel works which is his String Quintet no.8 in B flat major and Cello Sonata in E-flat Major. There are also already recordings of two string quintet in HERE. So, we will have at least three solid string quintet from meister Franz Xaver Gebel. He was grown up in Breslau and them moved to Russia in 1817.

Here are the CD notes :
"Franz Xaver Gebel was born in Fürstenau (Milin) near Breslau (Wrocław) in 1787 and received his musical education in Vienna, as did many of his Silesian peers. His list of teachers included Abbé Vogler and Johann Georg Albrechtsberger. In Vienna, Gebel was engaged at first as the director of music at the Theater in Leopoldstadt and published some compositions including the Great Sonata for pianoforte and violoncello. After working as a director of music in Vienna, Pest, Hermannstadt (Sibiu), and Lemberg (now Lviv in Western Ukraine), he ended up in Moscow in 1817, where he spent the rest of his life and gave private lessons for piano and composition. Some of his famous students included young philosophers and literati like Nikolai Stankevich and Nikolai Ogaryov, and other individuals who were significant for the later musical culture in Moscow: The author and music critic Nikolai Melgunow and the pianist Alexander Villoing, who was engaged as a teacher to the young Anton Rubinstein from 1837 and can be considered the founder of the Russian school for pianists. Of the pieces Gebel composed in Moscow, seven string quintets and one string quartet were printed in his last years in Moscow. Also a Russian translation of his composition studies was published – this was the first textbook on musical composition in Russian! We can find considerable appreciation of Gebel’s merits for the Moscow musical culture in the obituary by the anonymous Muscovite correspondent in the Leipzig Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung from June 23, 1843. The “adored and respected composer and pianist” was eulogized there as follows:

“Gebel was born in Breslau and lived here [in Moscow] for 35 years, in ceaseless dedication to improving musical tastes. As a pianist and theorist, he taught for 10 rubles an hour in the best homes and was highly esteemed as a master of his art. He lived - as every true artist - more for heaven than for earth. He did not worship money. If a poetic thought surprised him, he often forgot for weeks to give his lessons and sat at his desk putting his thoughts onto paper […]. Earlier, a select circle of art connoisseurs and art lovers, who purchased season tickets during the winter, were treated to a cycle including Gebel’s own work and that of other masters. These performances were composed of quartet and quintets and moved audiences into rapt awe by transporting them with truly beautiful pieces. Participants in these soirées look back on those occasions with great pleasure.”

Subscribers to Gebel’s evenings of chamber music had purchased tickets to what was probably the first public chamber concerts in Moscow, where they heard sophisticated pieces by Ludwig van Beethoven, and also quartets and quintets by Gebel himself. Gebel’s compositions apparently made quite an impression on his contemporaries. Almost 20 years after Gebel’s death, the String Quintet No. 8 and the Double Quintet Op. 28 were published at the Julius Schuberth publishing house in Leipzig in 1862. Today, this composer has mostly been forgotten in Russia as well as everywhere else."

Which read as very appealing background story. Fans of Classical period chamber music should rejoice upon this newly arrived quintet and cello sonata.

Franz Xaver Gebel - String Quintet and Cello Sonata (2017)

Franz Xaver Gebel: String Quintet No. 8 in B-Flat Major, Op. 27

I. Allegro agitato
II. Adagio espressivo
III. Scherzo: Allegro
IV. Finale: Andante - Allegro

Franz Xaver Gebel: Cello Sonata in E-Flat Major

I. Allegro
II. Romance: Adagio
III. Scherzo: Allegro moderato
IV. Allegro ma non troppo