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History
- Legley composed this work in the month of January of the last year of his life (1994) in Ostend.[1]
- This work was composed at the request of the string quartet Arte del Suono for the CD Harmonies Nouvelles en 12 mouvements pour l'Europe.[2] Legley's composition was to represent France musically.
- The first performance was to be played on 9 June 1994 in the concert hall of the Brussels Conservatoire by the members[3] of the string quartet Arte del Suono.[4] This concert probably had to be postponed because the organiser of the concert had discovered on 8 April that Yehudi Menuhin would also be playing a concert in Brussels on 9 June.[5] The concert may have been postponed to October of that year.[5][6]
Music
- instrumentation: string quartet[7]
- tempo: Non troppo vivo e molto spiritoso
- time signature: 4/4
- duration: ca 4'[8]
Recording
- YouTube: recording by the string quartet Arte del Suono.
Sources
- autograph: Royal Conservatory Brussels (B-Bc), shelf number BV-03-4044 part-1
- first edition (score and parts): CeBeDeM, Brussels, 1994
Notes
- ↑ Legley notes in his autograph: Serruys, between two blood transfusions. Serruys refers to the Henri Serruys campus of the AZ Sint-Jan hospital.
- ↑ Pavane Records ADW 7312.
- ↑ Lola Bobesco (violin), Suzanne Jannsens (violin), Jean-Elie Homatas (viola) and Jan Matthé (cello).
- ↑ Invitation to the concert in the Legley archive (Royal Conservatory Brussels (B-Bc), no shelf number yet).
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Lola Bobesco: letter to Victor Legley of 13 April 1994. Royal Conservatory Brussels (B-Bc), no shelf number yet.
- ↑ According to De Roeck (p.574), the work was not performed before 10 October 2004 at a benefit concert given by the King Baudouin Foundation at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.
- ↑ 2 violins, viola and cello.
- ↑ The recording of Arte del Suono lasts 3'34".
