George Alexander Albrecht, a composer, dedicated his 2018 string quartet 'Redeemed from fear and grief by love' to the Gropius Quartett.
Cultural Impact
The great Catalan cellist and humanist Pablo Casals used the folk song 'El cant dels ocells' ('The Song of the Birds') to campaign for a peaceful world, ending his exile concerts with an arrangement of it.
Composition History
Antonín Dvořák's String Quartet in F major op. 96, presented here, was written in the American village of Spillville, Iowa, during a summer holiday.
Compositional Technique
In his String Quartet in F minor, Mendelssohn largely dispensed with classical thematic development, instead using nervous semiquaver figures and tremolos.
Composition History
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's String Quartet in F minor op. 80, also known as 'Requiem for Fanny', was his penultimate completed composition.
Compositional Technique
The third movement of Dvořák's String Quartet in F major was inspired by a bird call the composer heard during a walk in Spillville.
Composer Biography
Mendelssohn was deeply affected by the death of his sister Fanny in May 1847, stating he felt 'the greatest emptiness and desolation in his head and heart'.
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