Composed by Ignaz Josef Pleyel. Arranged by Allan Badley. This edition: pdf. Classical. 74 pages. Artaria Editions #1093134. Published by Artaria Editions (A0.1519016).
2 violas and cello.
Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831) was at one time the most famous composer in the world. The popularity of his music eclipsed that of even his teacher Haydn and publishers vied to bring out his latest works as soon as they were finished. Some 2000 separate prints of Pleyel works had appeared by 1800 and his fame extended to every corner of Europe and as far afield as North America. Pleyel's career as a composer spanned less than thirty years with the majority of his works composed in the 1780s. He founded a successful publishing house in Paris in the mid-1790s and later began manufacturing keyboard instruments. With increasing demands on his time from his business concerns Pleyel's productivity as a composer dropped sharply and he ceased composing around 1805. The present work was the first of fifteen quintets composed by Pleyel between the years 1785 and 1789. Pleyel's fascination with the textural clarity and simplicity of Italian music has been noted in connection with his string quartets and the quintets pursue a similar stylistic path. Extended solo passages are given to each member of the ensemble and these are underpinned by the simplest and most transparent of accompaniments. The violins and violas are frequently deployed in pairs which creates interesting possibilities for antiphonal effects along with a denser texture in the middle of the ensemble. The violoncello is generally employed either in its traditional bass-line role or as a solo instrument: it is rarely coupled with another instrument in its extended solos. Pleyel's works tend to be thematically dense rather than motivically dense and in this respect they bear a similar kind of relation to Haydn's works as Schubert's do to those of Beethoven. Although motivic links between thematic ideas do exist from time to time, Artaria Editions AE469
For 2 violins, Pleyel revels in juxtaposing strongly-contrasting melodic ideas and interpolating new themes.
Allan Badley.
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Composed by Ignaz Josef Pleyel. Arranged by Allan Badley. This edition: pdf. Classical. 74 pages. Artaria Editions #1093134. Published by Artaria Editions (A0.1519016).
2 violas and cello.
Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831) was at one time the most famous composer in the world. The popularity of his music eclipsed that of even his teacher Haydn and publishers vied to bring out his latest works as soon as they were finished. Some 2000 separate prints of Pleyel works had appeared by 1800 and his fame extended to every corner of Europe and as far afield as North America. Pleyel's career as a composer spanned less than thirty years with the majority of his works composed in the 1780s. He founded a successful publishing house in Paris in the mid-1790s and later began manufacturing keyboard instruments. With increasing demands on his time from his business concerns Pleyel's productivity as a composer dropped sharply and he ceased composing around 1805. The present work was the first of fifteen quintets composed by Pleyel between the years 1785 and 1789. Pleyel's fascination with the textural clarity and simplicity of Italian music has been noted in connection with his string quartets and the quintets pursue a similar stylistic path. Extended solo passages are given to each member of the ensemble and these are underpinned by the simplest and most transparent of accompaniments. The violins and violas are frequently deployed in pairs which creates interesting possibilities for antiphonal effects along with a denser texture in the middle of the ensemble. The violoncello is generally employed either in its traditional bass-line role or as a solo instrument: it is rarely coupled with another instrument in its extended solos. Pleyel's works tend to be thematically dense rather than motivically dense and in this respect they bear a similar kind of relation to Haydn's works as Schubert's do to those of Beethoven. Although motivic links between thematic ideas do exist from time to time, Artaria Editions AE469
For 2 violins, Pleyel revels in juxtaposing strongly-contrasting melodic ideas and interpolating new themes.
Allan Badley.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global
self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters.
ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular
titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.
About Digital Downloads
Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on
your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music,
you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and
you don't have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play!
PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page
that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are
only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not
digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not
print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).
Preview: String Quintet in G minor (Benton 272)
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