> Offhand, I'm pretty sure that Shostakovich and Bartok didn't play any > string instruments.
Or Schumann, Brahms, Debussy, Ravel, Prokofiev, or others who wrote very effective chamber music for strings (though Prokofiev is more effective than idiomatic, as his string writing at times contains awkward "five-finger" passages that work much better on piano than strings; but his music is worth the extra effort). Lee Actor Composer-in-Residence and Assistant Conductor, Palo Alto Philharmonic http://www.leeactor.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
