Franz Schubert Movement for string quartet in C minor D 703
Egon Voss (Publisher)
Urtext Edition, paperbound
The writing of a new string quartet, begun in December 1820 by Schubert, unfortunately did not go beyond the initial movement: at the beginning of the second movement the highly rewritten autograph was interrupted. But this fragmentary inheritance of an excerpt from Schubert's quartet, once received at Brahms, provoked such a great enthusiasm in his new owner after a first performance in 1867, which he had published, three years later, this initial movement in as a "posthumous work" by Schubert - in which he opened the way for the hearts of the public to this little treasure of chamber music. Schubert's autograph manuscript presents so many differences in nuances and articulations that the publisher Egon Voss puts forward the assumption that Schubert would have experimented with different variants. There remains, therefore, in the realization of its Urtext edition, great circumspection with the complements and the differences between parallel passages - thus making Schubert's diversity of ideas understandable also to the performers of this music. For all those who would be curious to enter Schubert's studio for once, there are some measures of the second movement as a bonus!