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    I. Allegro, molto deciso ed energico II. Thema und Variationen III. Phantasie. Adagio Ernst Heinrich Křenek was born in Vienna, the son of a Czech soldier. He showed early musical promise and after studying under Schreker in Vienna, then Berlin, he began conducting in German...
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    I. Allegro II. Andante molto III. Presto IV. Allegro Sibelius was in his mid-twenties when he wrote his B-flat String Quartet and he worked on it from the summer of 1889 to September 1890. Sibelius commentators have speculated that the Adagio in D minor (JS 12) may have been intended...
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    I. Allegro comodo II. Andantino III. Minuetto con moto IV. Allegro giusto - Capriccio ad libitum Boccherini was a prolific composer of chamber music. The Gerard catalogue lists 488 chamber works. String Quintets weigh in at 110 but next come 106 string quartets. These numbers may be...
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    I. Introduzione. Lento - Allegro. Sempre maestoso II. Menuetto. Allegro energico III. Andante IV. Finale. Presto George Onslow was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France, the son of a wealthy parents (an aristocratic, MP English father and a French mother). His paternal grandfather...
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    Lasse Thoresen is a Norwegian composer whose works focus on the transformation of the folk-music of Scandinavia. He graduated in composition in 1972 from the Oslo Music Conservatory and then studied electro acoustic music and composition at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht. Pretty soon he...
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    Sehr Mässig - Heftig und Leidenschaftlich - Andante mosso - Etwas rascher - Adagio - Schnell - Im selben Tempo, doch sehr ruhig - Mit energischer Entschlossenheit - Tempo I (Molto Allegro) - Langsam Alexander Zemlinsky showed great musical promise at an early age and due to this was enrolled at...
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    I. Lebhaft und sehr energisch II. Sehr langsam III. Finale. Ausserst lebhaft Firstly, I need to thank and acknowledge my good friend Knorf for pointing me in the direction of this fine quartet. But for his insistence that I listen to it I wouldn't have got round to it for maybe a...
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    I. Allegro energico - largamente II. Quasi minuetto III. Adagio ma non troppo - Allegro con brio Frank Bridge completed his 4th String Quartet in 1937, when he was in his late 50s, and it was commissioned and dedicated to his generous patron, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. It was...
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    I. Ziemlich ruhig II. Sehr schnell III. Langsam, ausdrucksvoll IV. Ziemlich schnell Hans Pfitzner, although regarded as German, was actually born in Moscow (his dad played cello in the theatre orchestra). However, the family returned home to Frankfurt when Pfitzner was 2. His dad...
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    I. Agitatissimo [Allegro vivace] II. Adagio ma non troppo III. Presto - Trio IV. Marcia lugubre Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was born in Bergamo, Italy, into a very poor family with no musical inclinations (his dad worked at the village pawnshop). After a failed attempt at...
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    I. Adagio e mesto - Allegro ma non troppo II. Menuetto. Allegro assai III. Adagio e cantabile IV. Allegro vivace Johann Nepomuk Hummel was born in Pressburg (Bratislava) in Czechoslovakia on the 14 November 1778. A child prodigy, . Hummel started reading music aged 4, playing...
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    The Mendelssohnian, one-movement Quartette-Satz is a fine work. It comes between the two quartets and was written in Innsbruck, in 1879. The A-major single quartet movement is a sonata-Allegro that was rumoured to have been the first movement of another string quartet, that Thuille abandoned...
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    I. Allegro II. Menuetto III. Andante Thuille's 2nd String Quartet was composed very early in 1881 (it's dated 18 February 1881), Thuille was still a pupil of Rheinberger at the time. It's much more advanced than his 1st quartet but remains unfinished so it's only in three...
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    I. Allegro moderato II. Adagio molto III. Scherzo IV. Finale. Quasi presto Ludwig Wilhelm Andreas Maria Thuille was born in Bolzano, Italy, but the young boy was relocated to Bavaria when he was 6 after his mother died (he was orphaned as his father wasn't well enough to look...
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    I. Nocturne. Adagio sostenuto II. Scherzo. Allegro III. Passacaglia. Andante IV. Finale. Mattinata Pehr Nordgren was born in 1944 in Saltvik, Åland Islands, Finland. He started studying composition in 1958 in Helsinki, studied musicology in 1962 and then studied privately at...
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    I. Allegro moderato II. Menuetto. Allegretto - Trio III. Affetuoso e sostenuto IV. Finale. Presto I'm sure by now that if you've read my other Haydn op.20 blogs you'll know all about the genesis and composition of the Op.20 quartets so I'll get straight into the music. The...
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    I. Allegro deciso II. Adagio non troppo III. Allegro molto IV. Allegro Ernest Bloch was born in Geneva, Switzerland on 24th July 1880, to Jewish parents. He started playing the violin at 9 and then started composing music, later studying at the conservatory in Brussels, under...
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    I. Andante con moto - Allegro II. Larghetto con moto quasi andante III. Menuetto. Allegretto IV. Finale. Allegro Ferdinand Ries is probably best known as one of Beethoven's piano students but he was also a gifted composer in his own right who wrote twenty-five quartets, only...
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    I. Allegro moderato II. Adagio III. Scherzo. Allegro scherzando IV. Finale. Allegro vivace (apologies for the poor sound quality. It was the only live recording I could find) Btw, for more info on Fibich's early life see my previous blog on his 1st string quartet. His 2nd...
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    I. Allegro grazioso II. Andante semplice III. Allegretto IV. Allegro Very short clip, sorry! Zdeněk Fibich’s father was a Czech forestry official and his mother was German. The family led a slightly nomadic life for a while, due to his father's job...
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