String Quartet "Urbilder"

AuthorToshio Hosokawa
GenreMusic, Composition & Creative Writing
Original LanguageGerman, Japanese
Written1980
First published1984
LinksPublisher's site (revised version)
NotesToshio Hosokawa's string quartet "Urbilder" (原像) was written in 1980 and is dedicated to Himari Umehara. It was commissioned by the String Quartet of the Berlin Institute of Arts who first performed it at Ishibashi Memorial Hall, Tokyo on April 3, 1981. The original score was published by Ongaku No Tomo Sha Corp in 1984. A revised edition was published by Edition Schott in 2010.
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