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Armida Quartett: Fuga Magna

5/19/2017, 15 Tracks, 58:33

Featuring

  • Martin Funda
  • Johanna Staemmler
  • Teresa Schwamm
  • Peter-Philipp Staemmler
  • Armida Quartett
  • Valentin Haussmann
  • Alessandro Scarlatti
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Johann Gottlieb Goldberg
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

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Compositional Technique

Fugue technique creates connections between a leading voice (subject) and a following voice (answer) by imitating intervals and rhythms.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

The modern string quartet faces challenges with counterpoint due to the 2nd violin and viola often playing in uncomfortably low ranges, a legacy from earlier ensemble configurations.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

The Armida Quartet, founded in Berlin in 2006, is named after an opera by Joseph Haydn, who is known as the 'father of the string quartet'.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Johann Sebastian Bach's "Art of Fugue," though unfinished and intended for keyboard, was performed on string instruments even in the 18th century due to its non-instrument-specific writing.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Alessandro Scarlatti, composer of four sonatas on this album, specified they be performed "senza cembalo" (without harpsichord), leading some to consider them early string quartets.

Source: Booklet

Historical Context

In 1753/54, Berlin music theoretician Fr. W. Marpurg published his "Treatise on Fugue," demystifying fugue composition by showing it could be mathematically planned.

Source: Booklet

Historical Context

Around 1600, the 'church style' or stile antico, an elaborate compositional method, was differentiated from newer madrigal and affect-based styles.

Source: Booklet

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