Work Information
| Publisher |
Wilhelm Hansen |
Category |
Works for 2-6 Players |
| Sub-Category |
String Quartet |
Year Composed |
1973 |
| Duration |
20 Minutes |
Orchestration |
str4tet
alt.: Str |
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| Full Score(s): |
WH59531 |
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Programme Note
In all their briefness these ten "short-stories" for string quartet contain almost all that can be desired of musical expressions within the relatively short period of 20 minutes.
Violence expressed as joy, simplicity as necessity, contrasts as form.
The eruptive side of the music is not sharply segregated from the simple, harmoniously melodious side.
Each of the "short stories" point forward to the next and at the same time back to its predecessor and thus makes for a composed overall-structure.
That the last of the preludes is a straight Baroque-pastiche could be interpreted as an almost Holbergian moral where things are sorted out and loos ends tied.
Like in the fairy-tales one could say, " . . . There, this was a true story".
Reviews
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Each short movement is exactly and economically presented, and each has an individual flavour within a fundamental unity
Allan Blyth, The Daily Telegraph, 22/04/1983
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