String Quartet Double Bass,String Quartet - Digital Download SKU: A0.892506 Composed by Bernard Alt. Arranged by Klaus Stoll. Romantic Period. Score and parts. 16 pages. Mesa Music Publishing #5208909. Published by Mesa Music Publishing (A0.892506). Bernard Alt, Kobold, for double bass quartet, edited by Klaus Stoll. Bernard Alt was born in 1903 in Silesia and was violinist in the Berlin Philharmonic from 1928 until his suicide in February 1945. His tenure in Berlin coincided almost exactly with that of Wilhelm Fürtwangler. Beginning in 1932 Alt experimented with the double bass quartet first with an arrangement of Edvard Grieg’s popular melody Kobold, followed by a suite which, when published, became one of the classics of the bass quartet repertoire. In the now 65 year long chronology of the bass quartet, this piece stands as the earliest original music written for the ensemble.
