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Piano Quartet in A minor - Gustav Mahler
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Performed by the Pražák Quartet.
I - Nicht zu Schnell - Entschlossen - Mässig - Più Mosso - Meno mosso - L'istesso Tempo - Mässig: 0:00
Mahler's Piano Quartet was written while he was studying in the Vienna Conservatory circa 1876. The completed movement of the piece was premiered in July 10 of that year, with Mahler at the piano. One of a number of chamber works he composed between 1875-83, the piano quartet is the only one to have survived. It consists of a complete first movement in A minor and a twenty-four-measure sketch for a Scherzo in G minor.
The work remained between Mahler's papers when he died in May 18 of 1911, but it wasn't dicovered until much later when Mahler's widow Alma, found the score in the sixties. It was then performed in January 12 of 1964, by the Galimir Quartet with Peter Serkin at the piano. Russian composer Alfred Schnittke made a completion of the fragmentary second movement, who also included in his own Concerto Grosso No.4/Symphony No.5. The piece is very different to the music of the very known symphonic Mahler, being much more restrained and under the romantic influence of Schumann and Brahms.
The work is structured in a movement in sonata form. It opens with a sober and melancholic main theme introduced by the piano, dominated by a three-note pattern. The second theme, presented by the strings, is more dramatic and rhythmic. These materials are then reexposed. The development skillfully combines and elaborates on the themes, if perhaps without much imagination. A potent climax is reached, followed by much more intimate and delicate passage. The recapitulation brings back the themes in their original form. A brilliant but brief cadenza for the first violin takes place, leading us to a coda in which the music dissolves in the silence, ending with two pizzicato chords.
Picture: "States of Mind Series I. Those who remain" (1911) by the Italian artist Umberto Boccioni.
I - Nicht zu Schnell - Entschlossen - Mässig - Più Mosso - Meno mosso - L'istesso Tempo - Mässig: 0:00
Mahler's Piano Quartet was written while he was studying in the Vienna Conservatory circa 1876. The completed movement of the piece was premiered in July 10 of that year, with Mahler at the piano. One of a number of chamber works he composed between 1875-83, the piano quartet is the only one to have survived. It consists of a complete first movement in A minor and a twenty-four-measure sketch for a Scherzo in G minor.
The work remained between Mahler's papers when he died in May 18 of 1911, but it wasn't dicovered until much later when Mahler's widow Alma, found the score in the sixties. It was then performed in January 12 of 1964, by the Galimir Quartet with Peter Serkin at the piano. Russian composer Alfred Schnittke made a completion of the fragmentary second movement, who also included in his own Concerto Grosso No.4/Symphony No.5. The piece is very different to the music of the very known symphonic Mahler, being much more restrained and under the romantic influence of Schumann and Brahms.
The work is structured in a movement in sonata form. It opens with a sober and melancholic main theme introduced by the piano, dominated by a three-note pattern. The second theme, presented by the strings, is more dramatic and rhythmic. These materials are then reexposed. The development skillfully combines and elaborates on the themes, if perhaps without much imagination. A potent climax is reached, followed by much more intimate and delicate passage. The recapitulation brings back the themes in their original form. A brilliant but brief cadenza for the first violin takes place, leading us to a coda in which the music dissolves in the silence, ending with two pizzicato chords.
Picture: "States of Mind Series I. Those who remain" (1911) by the Italian artist Umberto Boccioni.
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