String sextet repertoire explained

Among the repertoire for the standard string sextet (2 violins, 2 violas, and 2 cellos) are the following works:^[1]

Ordering is by surname of composer.

Afanasyev, Nikolai

String Sextet

Barvinsky, Vassily

String Sextet (1914)

Bečan, Nejc (1984)

Clownology (The Jester, Pierrot - the sad Clown, The Circus Clown)

Berezovsky, Nikolai

String Sextet No. 1
String Sextet No. 2

Boccherini, Luigi

6 String Sextets, Op. 23 (1776)

Borodin, Aleksandr

String Sextet in D minor

Børresen, Hakon

String Sextet in G major, Op. 5 (1901)

Brahms, Johannes

String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 18 (1860)
String Sextet No. 2 in G major, Op. 36 (1864-1865)

Bridge, Frank

String sextet in E-flat major (1906-1913)

Busch, Adolf

String Sextet

Cissell, Luke

String Sextet No. 1 (2019)
String Sextet No. 2 (2019)^[2]

Davidov, Alexei

String Sextet in E-flat major Op.12

Davydov, Karl

String Sextet Op.35 (1879)

Dohnányi, Ernst von

String Sextet W080 (1893/6/8)

Antonín Dvořák

String Sextet A major, Op. 48, (B. 80) (1878)

Gade, Niels

String Sextet in E-flat major, Op. 35

Geviksman, Vitali

String Sextet (1960)

Glass, Louis

String Sextet, Op.15

Glière, Reinhold

String Sextet No. 1, Op. 1 (1900)
String Sextet No. 2, Op. 7 (1902)
String Sextet No. 3, Op. 11 (1904)

Hofmann, Heinrich

String Sextet in E minor, Op. 25 (published 1874)

Holbrooke, Joseph

String Sextet "Henry Vaughan" in D major, Op. 43/16 (1902)

Indy, Vincent d'

Sextet for Strings in B-flat major, Op. 92

Kapp, Artur

String Sextet (1951)

Koechlin, Charles

Le portrait de Daisy Hamilton, Op. 140

Koessler, Hans

String Sextet in F minor (published 1902)

Korndorf, Nikolai

Mozart Variations for string sextet (1990)

Korngold, Erich

String Sextet in D, Op. 10

Ledenev, Roman

Elegiac Sextet for strings Op. 30 (1982)

Lewandowsky, Max

String Sextet in C minor, Op. 5

Martinu, Bohuslav

String Sextet H. 224 (1932)

Merikanto, Aarre

String Sextet (1932) (reconstructed by Paavo Heininen, 1993)

String Sextet in C minor

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (sort-of):

Grande Sestetto Concertante (1808 transcription of the Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola and orchestra)

Penderecki, Krzysztof

Ciaccona in memoriam Giovanni Paolo II (Ludwig) (2005)

Piston, Walter

String Sextet

Rääts, Jaan

String Sextet, Op. 98 (1997)

Raff, Joachim

String Sextet in G minor, Op. 178 (1872)

Reger, Max

String Sextet in F major, Op. 118

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

String sextet in A major (1876])

Rubinstein, Anton

Sextet for strings in D major Op. 97 (1876)

Schoenberg, Arnold

Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4 (1899)

Schulhoff, Erwin

Sextet for strings, (1920–24)

Spohr, Ludwig

String Sextet in C major, Op. 140 (1848)^[3]

String Sextet in G major, Op. 20

Stanchinsky, Aleksei

Sextet for strings

Strauss, Richard

Sextet for strings from the opera Capriccio

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr

Souvenir de Florence for string sextet, Op. 70 (1890)

Vasks, Pēteris

Spring Sonata for string sextet (1987)

Waterhouse, Graham

String Sextet, Op. 1 (1979/2013)

Wilm, Nikolai von

String Sextet Op. 27

Wuorinen, Charles

String Sextet (1989)^[4]

References

IMSLP category for string sextets for the usual lineup

Notes and References

http://imslp.org/wiki/List_of_Compositions_for_String_Sextet "List of Compositions for String Sextet."
Web site: Composer Luke Cissell Makes an Arresting Musical Statement with 'String Sextets Nos 1 & 2', PopMatters. 21 June 2019.
See Edition Silvertrust, also Brown: Louis Spohr, a Critical Biography.
https://www.charleswuorinen.com/compositions/string-sextet/ Charleswuorinen.com

String sextet repertoire explained

References

See also

Notes and References