Richard Strauss, a close friend of Ludwig Thuille, praised Thuille's A-major string quartet as "exquisite, rich in melody, very well set and brilliantly composed in beautiful form."
Performer Biography
The Signum Quartett has won awards at the Premio Paolo Borciani Competition in Reggio Emilia (2008) and the International String Quartet Competitions in London (2009) and Hamburg (2009).
Composer Biography
After his mother's death, six-year-old Ludwig Thuille was sent to the Benedictine Monastery of Kremsmünster, where he received a scholarship and music lessons.
Composer Biography
Ludwig Thuille became close friends with Richard Strauss, who was three years his junior, a friendship documented in Strauss's letters.
Composer Biography
Ludwig Thuille, born in Bolzano in 1861, was a composer and teacher at the Münchner Schule, a leading musical center in Europe at the turn of the 20th century.
Compositional Technique
While Thuille's string quartets show influences of Brahms, their compositional technique leans more towards the classical model of Joseph Haydn, with the first violin carrying most of the melodic material.
Composition History
Ludwig Thuille's two string quartets on this album were written during his student years, with the A-major quartet composed in the first ten days of February 1878.
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