Quartets (Leoš Janáček)

Leoš Janáček composed two Quatuor S with cords.

Quartet n° 1

He was written in of only one week, between on October 30th and on November 7th 1923. He is called the Sonata with Kreutzer in reference to the work of Leon Tolstoï. The type-setter already took as a starting point this news for a Trio with cords and an outline of quartet, the two parts having been lost.

The first took place with Prague on October 17th 1924

The quartet consists of four movements and its execution lasts 15 minutes roughly. It takes again the chronology of the news until the final murder in the last movement.

Adagio

Idiot motor bike
Idiot motor bike - vivo - andante

Idiot motor bike (adagio) - più mosso

Quartet n° 2

He was written between on January 29th and on February 19th 1928. He is called intimate letters in homage to his egery, Kamila Stöslova, woman married, of almost forty years his junior, and who strongly influenced her work during the last years of her life. The musician exchanged an important correspondence with the latter.

This quartet was to be called originally love letters but the type-setter renonça for this reason, too explicit. In the same way, he wanted to replace the viola by a viola d'amore but did not maintain this project for technical reasons.

The quartet consists of four movements and its execution lasts a little less than thirty minutes.

Andante - idiot motor bike - allegro

Adagio - long-lived
Moderato - adagio - allegro

Allegro - andante - adagio.

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