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List of compositions for accordion and string quartet. Composers started writing music for this special combination in the second half of the twentieth century.
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List of compositions for accordion and string quartet. Composers started writing music for this special combination in the second half of the twentieth century.
- History and Development
- String Quartets of The Classical Period
- Variations of String Quartet
- Notable String Quartets
- String Quartets
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Early history
The early history of the string quartet is in many ways the history of the development of the genre by the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn. There had been examples of divertimenti for two solo violins, viola and cello by the Viennese composers Georg Christoph Wagenseil and Ignaz Holzbauer; and there had long been a tradition of performing orchestral works one instrument to a part. The British musicologist David Wyn Jones cites the widespread practice of four players, one to a part, playing wor...
Haydn's impact
The musicologist Hartmut Schick has suggested that Franz Xaver Richter invented the "classical" string quartet around 1757, but the consensus amongst most authorities is that Haydn is responsible for the genre in its currently accepted form. The string quartet enjoyed no recognized status as an ensemble in the way that two violins with basso continuo – the so-called 'trio sonata' – had for more than a hundred years. Even the composition of Haydn's earliest string quartets owed more to chance...
After Haydn
Quartet composition flourished in the Classical era. Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert each composed a number of quartets: "Beethoven in particular is credited with developing the genre in an experimental and dynamic fashion, especially in his later series of quartets written in the 1820s up until his death. Their forms and ideas inspired and continue to inspire musicians and composers, such as Wagner and Bartók." Schubert's last musical wish was to hear Beethoven's Quartet in C♯ minor, Op. 131,...
Quartets written during the classical period usually had four movements, with a structure similar to that of a symphony: The positions of the slow movement and third movement are flexible. For example, in Mozart's six quartets dedicated to Haydn, three have a minuet followed by a slow movement and three have the slow movement before the minuet. Sub...
Many other chamber groups can be seen as modifications of the string quartet: 1. The string quintet is a string quartet augmented by a fifth string instrument. Mozart employed two violas in his string quintets, while Schubert's string quintet utilized two cellos. Boccherini wrote a few quintets with a double bass as the fifth instrument. Most of Bo...
Notable works for string quartet include: 1. Joseph Haydn's 68 string quartets, in particular Op. 20, Op. 33, Op. 76, Op. 64, No. 5 ("The Lark") and the string quartet version of "The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour On the Cross" (Op. 51) 2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 23 string quartets, in particular the set of six dedicated to Haydn, including K. ...
Whereas individual string players often group together to make ad hoc string quartets, others continue to play together for many years in ensembles which may be named after the first violinist (e.g. the Takács Quartet), a composer (e.g. the Borodin Quartet) or a location (e.g. the Budapest Quartet). Established quartets may undergo changes in membe...
Sources
1. Baldassarre, Antonio : "String Quartet: §4", in: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell(London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001). 2. Beaumont, Antony. 2001. "Zemlinsky [Zemlinszky], Alexander (von). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers. 3. Eisen, Cliff: "String Quartet: §§1–3", in: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley...
Barrett-Ayres, Reginald: Joseph Haydn and the String Quartet (New York: Schirmer Books, 1974); ISBN 0-02-870400-2.Blum, David: The Art of Quartet Playing: The Guarneri Quartet in Conversation with David Blum (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986); ISBN 0-394-53985-0.Eisler, Edith: 21st-Century String Quartets (String Letter Publishing, 2000); ISBN 1-890490-15-6.Keller, Hans: The Great Haydn Quartets. Their Interpretation (London: J. M. Dent, 1986); ISBN 0-460-86107-7.Greg Sandow – Introducing String Quartets at the Wayback Machine(archived July 18, 2011)The accordion has been a primary instrument in Mexican music. It is mostly associated with Norteño music, which has become one of the most popular music genres in Mexico since the 1990s, but the instrument is also featured in other genres such as Cumbia. Ramon Ayala is arguably the best-known accordion player in Mexico; nicknamed the "King of ...
String Quartet No. 1 (1966) Serenade for violin, clarinet, double-bass, piano and percussion (1968) Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano "Quasi una sonata" (1968; orchestrated, 1987)
