The album's front illustration is "Sunset at Eragny" (1890) by Camille Pissarro, a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter.
Composition History
Fauré began his String Quartet by revisiting themes from an abandoned violin concerto from 1878.
Composition History
Franck's String Quartet was written after he studied quartets by Beethoven, Schubert, and Brahms, which influenced his work.
Compositional Technique
Franck's String Quartet combines traditional sonata form with ternary lied form, using a cyclic theme that his pupil Vincent d'Indy called 'l'idée mère' (the 'mother idea').
Composer Biography
Gabriel Fauré, at seventy-five, was encouraged to leave his post as Conservatoire director due to hearing problems, and his last work was a string quartet.
Performer Biography
The Dante Quartet, founded in 1995, won the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Chamber Music in 2007.
Composer Biography
César Franck's String Quartet was begun when the composer was sixty-six and premiered seven months before his death in a traffic accident.
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