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String Quartets Nos. 1-5

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This score has gone out of print from Dover Publications. I am unclear as to the specific "copyright" concerns. However, it could not hurt to send an e-mail to Dover requesting that they republish this title. They often listen to the public ear, and if able, and if there are enough people that write to them with an interest in buying the title it may just help in getting the presses going again. Go to:
http://store.doverpublications.com/customercarecenter.html
and fill out a short e-mail requesting that the Shostakovich String Quartets 1-5 be printed again.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: For reasons of ownership dispute, this, and almost all other editions of the 15 Shostakovich' string quartets are NO LONGER available for sale in United States until further notice.
Along with Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart, Shostakovitch quartets are firmly entrenched within the canon of classical music. In the Soviet Union acceptance of these somber quartets came almost as soon as they were written: the Beethoven Quartet, the Taneyev Quartet and the Borodin Quartet,all championed them in the USSR and abroad. In the West acceptance came more gradually. Most notably, the Emerson Quartet's recording of the cycle gained wider recognition for these works, offering a less "Russian" interpretation. However, the Borodin interpretation still remains definitive.

This edition offers the first 5 quartets: opus 49(in C), opus 68(in A), opus 73(in F), opus 83(in D) and opus 92(in Bb). This edition is unabridged with original markings for dynamics and articulation. This Dover edition is a compilation of several "authoritative" editions.