String Quartet No. 14 (Villa-Lobos)

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Villa-Lobos in June 1952

String Quartet No. 14 is the one of a series of seventeen works in the medium by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, and was written in 1953. A performance lasts approximately seventeen minutes.

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History

Villa-Lobos composed his Fourteenth Quartet in Rio de Janeiro in 1953 on a commission from the University of Michigan for the Stanley Quartet (Gilbert Ross and Emil Raab, violins; Robert Courte, viola; Oliver Edel, cello), to whom the score is dedicated. The Stanley Quartet gave the first performance in Ann Arbor as part of the sixty-ninth concert of the University of Michigan School of Music's 1953–54 season on Tuesday, 9 March 1954. It was preceded on the programme by Haydn's Quartet in C Major, Op. 74, No. 1, and followed by Beethoven's Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 130. [1] [2]

Analysis

As with most of Villa-Lobos's quartets, there are four movements:

  1. Allegro
  2. Andante
  3. Scherzo (Vivace)
  4. Molto allegro

All four movements of this quartet are in ternary, ABA form. [3]

The second movement is nostalgic in manner, opening with a sixteen-bar, desolate, chromatic, and atonal fugato. The central section is strongly contrasted, using a theme in a tonal, popular-music style. [4]

Discography

Chronological, by date of recording.

Filmography

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References

  1. Villa-Lobos, sua obra 1972, p. 87.
  2. University of Michigan School of Music 1954, p. unpaginated.
  3. Gutiérrez 2006, p. 194.
  4. Gutiérrez 2006, pp. 137–138.

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