QUARTET RECITAL
Tne luncn-nour conceit to be given, at the University this week consists of one major work, the Quartet in E minor by Smetana, and Wolf’s Italian Serenade. Smetana wrote only three chamber, works during his years of maturity. The first of these, the Pianoforte Trio in G minor, was composed in
memory of his daughter who died in her fifth year as the result of scarlet fever. His two string quartets, although autobiographical,
were not quite tne nrst or their kind to enter the realm of programme music, for Haydn had already arranged his orchestral “Seven Last Words” for string quartet nearly 90 years earlier, but Smetana’s works were the first important programmatic works conceived for that medium.
The Quartet in E minor,
“From My Life,” is in four movements, and each movement expresses various dramatic points in the composer’s life.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30499, 22 July 1964, Page 13
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