IDAGIO | Arnold Schönberg: String Quartet in D Major, String Trio, Op. 45 & Phantasy for Violin, Op. 47 - Gustav Mahler: Piano Quartet 3149028139235

Featuring

Vlastimil Holek
Josef Klusoň
Michal Kaňka
Sachiko Kayahara
Václav Remeš
Pražák Quartet

Gustav Mahler
Arnold Schoenberg

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Composition History

Arnold Schoenberg's String Quartet in D Major, composed in 1897, was not published until 1966, and its next performance after 1898 did not occur until 1952, after the composer's death.

Composer Biography

Arnold Schoenberg, largely self-taught and coming to music relatively late, acquired his basic musical knowledge by playing and writing chamber works.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Theodor Adorno, a philosopher and musician, considered Gustav Mahler to be 'the most metaphysical composer since Beethoven' due to his constant spiritualization of music and introspective nature.

Composer Biography

Gustav Mahler composed chamber music as a student at the Vienna Conservatory, where he was admitted exceptionally through the intervention of Julius Epstein, who took him into his piano class.

Composition History

Gustav Mahler intentionally destroyed many of his early works, mostly intended for himself as a pianist, leaving only a movement for piano quartet and 24 bars of a scherzo from that period.

Compositional Technique

Arnold Schoenberg's Phantasy for violin and piano, his last completed chamber work, was designed so that the two instruments progress independently, with the piano accompaniment added after the violin part was fully composed.

Performer Biography

The Pražák Quartet, like many Bohemian ensembles, was formed by students at the Prague Conservatory and later won the First Prize at the Evian International Competition in 1978.