String quartet 3
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dedicated to the Haydn Quartet
Opus 50
History
- On 18 July 1955, Legley started to rework his Fanfare d'hommage Béla Bartók into a string quartet, which he completed on 20 October 1956. Initially, Legley wrote the work for the Paganini quartet that wanted to play a new work by a Belgian composer in the United States in February 1956.[1] This plan apparently could not be fulfilled, since Legley completed his string quartet only in October of that year.
- First performance by the Europäisches Streichquartett in Brussels (BRT).[2]
Music
- instrumentation: string quartet[3]
- duration: ca 15'
Parts
- I.
- Lento
- time signature: 6/8
- Allegro con fuco
- time signature: 5/8 en 2/4
- Andante cantabile
- time signature: 2/4
- Lento
- II. Allegro scherzando
- time signature: 6/8
- III.
- Adagio
- time signature: 5/4
- Allegro grazioso e sempre molto leggero
- time signature: 10/8
- Subito tempo primo (adagio)
- time signature: 5/4
- Adagio
Sources
- autograph: Royal Conservatory Brussels (B-Bc), shelf number BV-03-4025 onderdeel 2
- first edition (study score): CeBeDeM, Brussels, 1957
- first edition (parts): CeBeDeM, Brussels, 1957
