Quatuor Via Nova
The Quatuor Via Nova , also known internationally as the Via Nova Quartet , is a Paris- based French string quartet . The quartet was founded in 1968 by Jean Mouillère .
history
During the Cyrne Arte Festival (Center artistique et culturel international en Corse) in Corsica , four young musicians met for four years from 1964 until they decided to form a musically established quartet. They named themselves as a group from 1964 to 1968 with the name of the Festival Quatuor du Festival de Cyrne Arte and Quatuor de Cyrne Arte . From 1968 they took on the ensemble name Quatuor Via Nova mentioned in the title . Since 1976 the quartet has been supported by the French Ministry of Culture.
In addition to the classical string quartet repertoire, the quartet also played rarely performed works by Ernest Chausson , Albert Roussel and André Caplet, among others . Overall, the quartet gave contemporary music an important place. The most famous soloists in the world such as Lily Laskine , Maurice Gendron , Pierre Fournier , Isaac Stern , Mstislaw Rostropowitsch and Yehudi Menuhin performed together with the quartet. The quartet has received numerous awards, including the Grand Prix du Disque Français , the Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros , the Grand Prix Gabriel Fauré , Grand Prix de Musique Guerlin de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts and the Prix du Président de la Republique .
The quartet premiered the 3rd string quartet by André Casanova (1989), the string quartet Pro tempore passionis by Jacques Castérède (1989) and works by Yves Claoué , Graciane Finzi , Jean-Paul Holstein , Alain Moène and Antoine Tisné .
Jean Mouillère plays a violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini from 1774, Jean-Pierre Sabouret on a violin by Carlo Guadagnini from 1806, Liviu Stanese on a viola by Carlo Bergonzi from 1780 and Jean-Marie Gamard on a cello by Giovanni Grancino from 1740.
Members
- Violin I : Jean Mouillère (since 1968)
- Violin II: Jean-Pierre Sabouret (1968), Hervé Le Floch (1968–1971), Alain Moglia (1971–1975), Jean-Pierre Sabouret (since 1975)
- Viola : René Jeannerey (1968–1969), Gérard Caussé (1969–1971), Claude Naveau (1971–1989), Pierre Frank (1989–1992), Liviu Stanese (since 1992)
- Violoncello : René Benedetti (1968–1971), Roland Pidoux (1971–1978), Jean-Marie Gamard (since 1978)
literature
- Alain Pâris : Classical music in the 20th century, instrumentalists, singers, conductors, orchestras, choirs . Quatuor Vila Nova. 2nd Edition. dtv, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-32501-1 , p. 1058 .
- Quatuor Via Nova. In: Alain Pâris: Le Nouveau Dictionnaire des interprètes. 2015. ISBN 978-2-221-18755-5 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
- Quartet Via Nova. In: Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música . Enciclopèdia Catalana, accessed June 12, 2020 (Catalan).
Web links
- Literature by and about Quatuor Via Nova in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Quatuor Via Nova at Discogs (English)
- Quatuor Via Nova on MusicBrainz (English)
- Quatuor Via Nova. (No longer available online.) In: www.infoconcert.com. Archived from the original on June 12, 2020 ; accessed on June 12, 2020 (French).