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String sextet repertoire

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Among the repertoire for the standard string sextet (2 violins, 2 violas, and 2 cellos) are the following works:[1]

Ordering is by surname of composer.

Afanasyev, Nikolai

  • String Sextet

Barvinsky, Vassily

  • String Sextet (1914)

Bečan, Nejc (1984)

  • Clownology (The Jester, Pierrot - the sad Clown, The Circus Clown)

Berezovsky, Nikolai

  • String Sextet No. 1
  • String Sextet No. 2

Boccherini, Luigi

  • 6 String Sextets, Op. 23 (1776)

Borodin, Aleksandr

  • String Sextet in D minor

Børresen, Hakon

  • String Sextet in G major, Op. 5 (1901)

Brahms, Johannes

Bridge, Frank

  • String sextet in E-flat major (1906-1913)

Busch, Adolf

  • String Sextet

Cissell, Luke

  • String Sextet No. 1 (2019)
  • String Sextet No. 2 (2019)[2]

Davidov, Alexei

  • String Sextet in E-flat major Op.12

Davydov, Karl

  • String Sextet Op.35 (1879)

Dohnányi, Ernst von

  • String Sextet W080 (1893/6/8)

Antonín Dvořák

Gade, Niels

  • String Sextet in E-flat major, Op. 35

Geviksman, Vitali

  • String Sextet (1960)

Glass, Louis

  • String Sextet, Op.15

Glière, Reinhold

  • String Sextet No. 1, Op. 1 (1900)
  • String Sextet No. 2, Op. 7 (1902)
  • String Sextet No. 3, Op. 11 (1904)

Hofmann, Heinrich

  • String Sextet in E minor, Op. 25 (published 1874)

Holbrooke, Joseph

  • String Sextet "Henry Vaughan" in D major, Op. 43/16 (1902)

Indy, Vincent d'

  • Sextet for Strings in B-flat major, Op. 92

Kapp, Artur

  • String Sextet (1951)

Koechlin, Charles

  • Le portrait de Daisy Hamilton, Op. 140

Koessler, Hans

  • String Sextet in F minor (published 1902)

Korndorf, Nikolai

  • Mozart Variations for string sextet (1990)

Korngold, Erich

  • String Sextet in D, Op. 10

Ledenev, Roman

  • Elegiac Sextet for strings Op. 30 (1982)

Lewandowsky, Max

  • String Sextet in C minor, Op. 5

Martinu, Bohuslav

  • String Sextet H. 224 (1932)

Merikanto, Aarre

  • String Sextet (1932) (reconstructed by Paavo Heininen, 1993)

Mosonyi, Mihály

  • String Sextet in C minor

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (sort-of):

  • Grande Sestetto Concertante (1808 transcription of the Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola and orchestra)

Penderecki, Krzysztof

  • Ciaccona in memoriam Giovanni Paolo II (Ludwig) (2005)

Piston, Walter

  • String Sextet

Rääts, Jaan

  • String Sextet, Op. 98 (1997)

Raff, Joachim

  • String Sextet in G minor, Op. 178 (1872)

Reger, Max

  • String Sextet in F major, Op. 118

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

  • String sextet in A major (1876])

Rubinstein, Anton

  • Sextet for strings in D major Op. 97 (1876)

Schoenberg, Arnold

Schulhoff, Erwin

  • Sextet for strings, (1920–24)

Spohr, Ludwig

  • String Sextet in C major, Op. 140 (1848)[3]

Stainlein, Louis Comte de [de]

  • String Sextet in G major, Op. 20

Stanchinsky, Aleksei

  • Sextet for strings

Strauss, Richard

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr

Vasks, Pēteris

  • Spring Sonata for string sextet (1987)

Waterhouse, Graham

Wilm, Nikolai von

  • String Sextet Op. 27

Wuorinen, Charles

  • String Sextet (1989)[4]

References

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  1. ^ "List of Compositions for String Sextet." International Music Score Library Project. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  2. ^ "Composer Luke Cissell Makes an Arresting Musical Statement with 'String Sextets Nos 1 & 2', PopMatters". 21 June 2019.
  3. ^ See Edition Silvertrust, also Brown: Louis Spohr, a Critical Biography.
  4. ^ Charleswuorinen.com

See also

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