Compositions for string orchestra

musical work by Remo Giazotto

musical composition by Samuel Barber

composition for string sextet by Arnold Schoenberg

musical composition by Krzysztof Penderecki (1960)

BWV 1043 by Johann Sebastian Bach

composition by Béla Bartók

Metamorphosen, study for 23 solo strings (TrV 290, AV 142) is a composition by Richard Strauss for ten violins, five violas, five cellos, and three double basses, typically lasting 25 to 30 minutes. It was composed during the closing months of the Second World War, from August 1944 to March 1945. The piece was commissioned by Paul Sacher, the founder and director of the Basler Kammerorchester and Collegium Musicum Zürich, to whom Strauss dedicated it. It was first performed on 25 January 1946 by Sacher and the Collegium Musicum Zürich, with Strauss conducting the final rehearsal.

composition for string orchestra by Tchaikovsky

suite composed by Edvard Grieg

collection of suites by Heitor Villa-Lobos

ballet

composition for string orchestra by Ralph Vaughan Williams

string orchestra work by Gustav Holst

1922 composition by Jean Sibelius

1977 musical composition by Arvo Pärt

composition for string orchestra by Karl Jenkins

composition for piano, string quartet and string orchestra by Benjamin Britten

string quartet music by Alban Berg

composition by Benjamin Britten

orchestral work composed by Antonín Dvořák

composition by Béla Bartók

musical composition by Edward Elgar

''''' (The Lover'''''), Op. 14, is a suite by Jean Sibelius. He completed it in 1912, scored for string orchestra, percussion and triangle. He based it on his earlier composition of the same title, a song cycle of four movements for men's chorus a cappella completed in 1894. The works are based on a Finnish text in Book 1 of the Kanteletar.

composition for string quartet and string orchestra by Edward Elgar

composition for string quartet

Polymorphia (Many forms) is a composition for 48 string instruments (24 violins and 8 each of violas, cellos and basses) composed by the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki in 1961. The piece was commissioned by the North German Radio Hamburg. It premiered on 16 April 1962 by the radio orchestra and was conducted by Andrzej Markowski. Polymorphia is dedicated to Hermann Moeck, the first of Penderecki’s editors in the West.

1958 composition for string orchestra by Witold Lutosławski

Suite by Peter Warlock

Trauermusik is a suite for viola and string orchestra, written on 21 January 1936 by Paul Hindemith at very short notice in memory of King George V of the United Kingdom, who died the previous night. The title means "Mourning Music" or "Funeral Music" in English, but the work is always known by its German title.

composition by Igor Stravinsky

string septet composed by John Adams

orchestral music by Vaughan Williams