Description
String Quintett a Minor op. 7
Scoring: 2 violins, 2 violas and violoncello
Edition: score and parts
year: 1909
ed. by
Michael Goldbach
The manuscript is clearly legible and extremely carefully produced; it contains various annotations or corrections by another hand, such as entries of fingerings, which suggest that music was played from the parts. There are also orientation letters for each movement, which have been adopted. Other entries by other hands that are considered relevant have also been included and are documented under readings; slurs by other hands are marked with a dotted line. Slurs added by the editor are also marked with a dashed line, but do not appear under readings. The indications ritardando and ritenuto or poco rit. and ritenut., which occasionally appear simultaneously in different parts, have been standardized in such places. The playing instruction spiccato
is written with a c in the original; the present edition writes spiccato.
In the 1st movement, with the exception of violin 2, all the other parts change to 12/8 in bar 103; violin 2 changes to 12/8 in m. 107. This passage has been standardized so that all the parts now change to 12/8 in m. 106. In addition, the 1st movement has one bar too many in violin 2 (m. 133 has been deleted). The performance markings are Italian with one exception: prominent.
