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== History ==
*Legley composed this work in the month of January of the last year of his life (1994) in Ostend.<ref>Legley notes in his autograph: ''Serruys, between two blood transfusions''. ''Serruys'' refers to the Henri Serruys campus of the AZ Sint-Jan hospital.</ref>
*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''.<ref>Pavane Records ADW 7312.</ref> 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<ref>Lola Bobesco (violin), Suzanne Jannsens (violin), Jean-Elie Homatas (viola) and Jan Matthé (cello).</ref> of the string quartet ''Arte del Suono''.<ref>Invitation to the concert in the Legley archive ('''Royal Conservatory Brussels''' ''(B-Bc)'', no shelf number yet).</ref> 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.<ref name="one">Lola Bobesco: letter to Victor Legley of 13 April 1994. '''Royal Conservatory Brussels''' ''(B-Bc)'', no shelf number yet.</ref> The concert may have been postponed to October of that year.<ref name="one"/><ref>According to [[De Roeck/en|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.</ref>

== Music ==
*instrumentation: string quartet<ref>2 violins, viola and cello.</ref>
*tempo: Non troppo vivo e molto spiritoso
*time signature: '''4/4'''
*duration: ca 4'<ref>The recording of ''Arte del Suono'' lasts 3'34".</ref>

===Recording===
*[https://youtu.be/TPCx-KdZCO8 YouTube]: recording by the string quartet ''Arte del Suono''.

== Sources ==
*autograph: '''Royal Conservatory Brussels''' ''(B-Bc)'', shelf number [http://catalog.b-bc.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=28188 '''BV-03-4044 part-1''']
*first edition (score and parts): '''CeBeDeM''', Brussels, '''1994'''

==Notes==
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