Morton Feldman
String Quartet No. 1
Duration: 16'
Choir: CHAMBER MUSIC/ENSEMB
Roles:
violoncello viola violin I violin II
Instrumentation details:
violin I
violin II
viola
violoncello
Feldman - 1. Streichquartett for string quartet
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Morton Feldman
Feldman: String Quartet No. 1Orchestration: für Streichquartett
Type: Stimmensatz (Sonderanfertigung)
Language: Französisch
Morton Feldman
Feldman: String Quartet No. 1 for string quartetOrchestration: for string quartet
Type: Partitur
Language: Französisch
Work introduction
The world premiere of String Quartet No. 1 took place in L'Auditori de Barcelona by Cosmos Quartet, at the concert of September 18, 2022, closing the II International Biennial of String Quartets.
My first string quartet navigates between two antagonistic conceptions regarding the perception of musical time: a more directional and “chronometric” conception based on processes of temporal contraction and dilation, and another based on more static sound spaces where time seems to paralyze giving passage to a more “vertical” perception of time.
These two conceptions of time cohere thanks to the same apparently past material; However, the filter of microtonality turns this material into a foreign body where tradition emerges as a distant and unreal cloud.
What is necessary to perform this work?
The world premiere of String Quartet No. 1 took place in L'Auditori de Barcelona by Cosmos Quartet, at the concert of September 18, 2022, closing the II International Biennial of String Quartets.
My first string quartet navigates between two antagonistic conceptions regarding the perception of musical time: a more directional and “chronometric” conception based on processes of temporal contraction and dilation, and another based on more static sound spaces where time seems to paralyze giving passage to a more “vertical” perception of time.
These two conceptions of time cohere thanks to the same apparently past material; However, the filter of microtonality turns this material into a foreign body where tradition emerges as a distant and unreal cloud.