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Korngold, ed. Fuchs – Drei Stucke, Op. 11 – String Quartet

• Publisher: Schott
• Composer: Erich Korngold
• Editor: Andreas Fuchs
• Format: Softcover
• Length: 19 p.

• New incidental music was required for a performance of William Shakespeare s comedy Much Ado about Nothing in the Schönbrunn Schlosstheater in Vienna in 1920. Erich Wolfgang Korngold had already composed this music two years previously; he also conducted thepremière in May 1920. In January of the same year however, Korngold s entertaining suite also received its first performance and itscatchy melodies have guaranteed its popularity up to the present day.

  A third version arranged by the composer for string quartet surfaced at an auction in 1984 : this version of the work had however never been performed. The Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde [Society of Music Lovers] in Vienna succeeded in purchasing this three-movement version which will receive its much belated performance almost a century after its creation.