String Quartet No. 4 (Taneyev)
The string no. 4 in a minor op. 11 is one of six with opus number provided quartets of Russian composer Sergei Tanejew .
Origin, structure and style
As a composer, Taneyev turned to the genre of the string quartet relatively late. The first one he found worth publishing (earlier works were published posthumously) was created in the early 1890s, when he had become one of the most influential teachers at the Moscow Conservatory . The mature musician composed his official fourth string quartet in 1898 and 1899. It was published by Mitrofan Belyayev on the mediation of Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow . The sentences are as follows:
- Adagio - Allegro
- Allegro vivace e scherzando
- adagio
- Finale: Adagio - Allegro
The classic four-movement concept here merely provides the framework for a progressive work by Taneyev, unusual in form and expression, whose previous compositions were considered more academic and traditional. The movements are characterized by "astonishingly free chromatics, sliding harmony and multilayered rhythms". The vividly unfolding sound paintings, for example in the virtuoso-playful Scherzo, are repeatedly condensed and the movements are cyclically connected with one another.
reception
With the string quartet, whose tonal language Taneyev further developed at the beginning of the 20th century , he showed Russian music the way to the modern age .
literature
- Friedhelm Krummacher : History of the String Quartet , Volume 2: Romanticism and Modernism, Laaber-Verlag , Regensburg 2005