String Quartet (Score & Parts) - easy to intermediate SKU: HL.49045974
From Children's Corner. Composed by Claude Debussy. Edited by Wolfgang Birtel. Arranged by Wolfgang Birtel. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. String Ensemble. Classical. Softcover. 28 pages. Schott Music #ED21590. Published by Schott Music (HL.49045974). ISBN 9790001192132. UPC: 841886020023. 9x12 inches.
The famous Golliwogg's Cakewalk is the final piece from Debussy's cycle Children's Corner which consists of 6 miniatures for piano, written for his daughter in the years 1906-1908. The style corresponds to that of ragtime, a dance which was in vogue around the turn of the century. In the middle section, he parodies several times the beginning of the opera Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner with whom Debussy had a rather ambiguous relationship. The present arrangement now allows musicians to play the popular movement in a version for string quartet.
