String quartet no. 1 - Score & parts — Reconstruction by Anssi Mattila

Tulindberg, Erik
Title: String quartet no. 1 - Score & parts — Reconstruction by Anssi Mattila
Authors: Tulindberg, Erik (Composer)
Mattila, Anssi (Muokannut)
Product number: 9790550118799
Product form: Sheet music
Availability: Delivery in 7-16 days
Publication date: 13.9.2023
Price: 29,90 € (27,18 € vat 0 %)

Publisher: Fennica Gehrman
Edition: 2023
Publication year: 2023
Language: English, Finnish
Pages: 53
Product family: Chamber music
String ensembles
Finnish library classification: 78.5132 Neljä jousisoitinta
Key words: jousikvartetot
The first composer to warrant a place in the musical history of Finland, Erik Tulindberg (1761-1814) was an excellent violinist, and he also played the cello. His musical reputation spread all the way to Stockholm (Finland was at that time part of the Kingdom of Sweden), and in 1797 was there admitted as a member of the Royal Academy of Music.

The I violin, viola and cello parts of Tulindberg's String Quartets were discovered in 1923 in the collections of Helsinki University Library. They were copies of the instrumental parts presumably made by Tulindberg himself, though they were possibly never used during his lifetime. Not only is the whole of the II violin part missing; the first movement of the viola part of the fifth Quartet stops in the middle of a phrase, and the last 60 bars or so of the movement's manuscript page are just empty staves.

In the early 2000s, the Rantatie Quartet asked Anssi Mattila whether he would like to reconstruct the missing II violin part. The job was finished in 2004 and the Rantatie Quartet released a Classical Emma-winning disc of the Quartets in 2006.

This product includes the full score and the set of parts.


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