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Quartet de Pedralbes

Cuarteto de cuerda

BLANCAFORT, Manuel

Reg.: B.2907

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  • Ensemble: Quartets: .
  • Genres: Classical / contemporary: Chamber.
  • Product format: Partitura + particellas
  • Difficulty level: Intermediate-advanced
  • Period: 1st half S. XX
  • Publishing house: Editorial Boileau
  • No. of pages: 80+68
  • Measure: 31,00 x 23,00 cm
  • Lenght: 22'
  • ISBN: 978-84-8020-027-1
  • ISMN: 979-0-3503-1994-5
  • Available in digital: No
  • Available for rent: No

Quartet de Pedralbes (Pedralbes Quartet) is in honour of the patron Josep Bartomeu to whom it is dedicated and in whose mansion (today the “Jardí dels Tarongers” centre of musical documentation) it received its first public performance in 950 by E. Brocquet, D. Ponsa, M. Valero and J. Trotta. While it is similar to the previous quartet in composition and treatment, there is a curious nationalistic fervour in some of the themes which shows an undeniable debt to Eduard Toldrà. The first movement, again one of the most painstaking of the work, immediately brings to mind the complexity of the classical sonata form and explores a main theme of clearly Catalan references through both the constant use of triplets and the colour of the melodic designs. Although the second movement, an allegro, seeks the thematic and expressive “collage”, the third, a moderato lets itself be taken along paths of descriptive lyricism, centred on the figure of Count Arnau. Finally the fourth, a vivace giovale, recalls expressive elements of the first movement while closely following the musical form of the rondo. This work obtained honourable mention at the National Music Competition of 1950, thus ensuring its success when it was interpreted in Madrid by the Cuarteto Clásico de Radio Nacional.

Xosé Aviñoa
Musicologist

Allegro giocoso
Allegro
Passa el comte Arnau
Vivace e gioviale

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