SKU: CA.5008900

ISBN 9790007092351.

Rheinberger's string quartets combine rich sonority and the art of variation, following in the footsteps of Schumann and Mendelssohn, with Rheinberger's feeling for form, melodic beauty and contrapuntal mastery; his attitude to the musical movements of his time is suggested in his first String Quartet, now published in a scholarly edition, through such things as the quotation, probably to be understood ironically, from the Prelude to Wagner's Tristan in the last movement.