Three Intermezzi for string quartet
Full title | Three Intermezzi for string quartet or string orchestra / Drei Intermezzi für Streichquartett oder Streichorchester | |
Date composed | 1941 | |
Details |
1. Revelation [alternately titled New Day] 2. Capriccio 3. Interrupted Serenade [alternately titled Interrupted Serenading] Composition completed in December 1941. Performance duration: to be determined. |
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Manuscript sources | NYPL JOB 73–132, holograph score of string quartet version (4 folded folios), with composer's note on title page: New York, December 1941; the three movements are numbered but only no. 3 has a descriptive title, and each has a completion date at the end—for movement 1, Andante moderato: 9./XII. 1941; for movement 2, Moderato: 19./XII. 1941; and for movement 3, Allegro, titled Disturbed Serenade: 31./XII. 1941 / K. W. See also NYPL JPB 99–7 no.97, Composers Facsimile Edition of holograph score of string orchestra version (10 pages), with the title: Musicians Edition / String Score / Intermezzi for strings by Karl Weigl; in this score the movements are called Parts I, II, and III and titled Revelation (Andante moderato); Capriccio (Moderato); and Interrupted Serenading (Allegretto). | |
Publication details | Whitney Blake, 1966. | |
Availabiity | Score and parts available from KWF. | |
Recordings | ||
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Three Intermezzi for string quartet / Drei Intermezzi für Streichquartett, no. 1 |
26 May 1942 | New York, private musicale, home of Mrs. H. A. Guinzburg: Marjorie Fulton, Louis Fischzohn, Kalman Fleisig, Sidney Edwards (string quartet version). Also on program: Ysaye, Prelude for violin solo; Bach, arias arranged for soprano and cello. |
3 October 1981 | New York, Carnegie Recital Hall, Mahler—Weigl Anniversary Program: string orchestra, cond. John Szicheng-Lau (orchestra version). |
15 October 2006 | Toronto, Glenn Gould Studio, CBC: ARC Ensemble members (Erika Raum, Felicia Moye, Carolyn Blackwell, Bryan Epperson, and Joel Quarrington, double bass). |
21 May 2017 | Seattle, Benaroya Halls Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall, in the nineteenth season of Seattles Music of Remembrance: Three Intermezzi for string quartet, in a version for string quintet, performed by Mikhail Shmidt, Takumi Taguchi, Susan Gulkis Assadi, Mara Finkelstein, and Jonathan Green. Also on the program: works by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Hans Gál, and Mieczyslaw Weinberg. See www.musicofremembrance.org. |