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Villa-Lobos composed his Tenth Quartet in Rio de Janeiro in 1946. It was first performed by the Quarteto de São Paulo in Paris on 12 February 1950. The score is dedicated to Mindinha (Arminda Neves d'Almeida), the composer's companion for the last 23 years of his life. Analysis. The quartet consists of four movements: Poco animato; Adagio
The Budapest Quartet, who premiered Villa-Lobos's Quartet No. 17. Villa-Lobos composed his Seventeenth Quartet in Rio de Janeiro in 1957. It was first performed by the Budapest String Quartet on 16 October 1959, at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., exactly one month before the composer's death. Villa-Lobos was too ill to attend. [1]
Heitor Villa-Lobos. String Quartet No. 6 ("Brazilian") is one of seventeen works in the genre by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, and was written in 1938, in between his early and late periods. Villa-Lobos considered naming it "Quartet Popular No. 2" as opposed to "Brazilian," and while the work is indeed one of his more nationalist ...
String Quartet No. 5 (Villa-Lobos) Heitor Villa-Lobos. String Quartet No. 5 ("Quarteto popular no. 1") is the fifth of seventeen works in the genre by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, written in 1931. A performance lasts approximately 17 minutes.
String Quartet No. 14 (Villa-Lobos) Villa-Lobos in June 1952. String Quartet No. 14 is the one of a series of seventeen works in the medium by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, and was written in 1953. A performance lasts approximately seventeen minutes.
The term string quartet refers to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them. Many composers from the mid-18th century onwards wrote string quartets. The associated musical ensemble consists of two violinists, a violist, and a cellist. The double bass is almost never used in the ensemble mainly because it would ...
Heitor Villa-Lobos. String Quartet No. 3 ("Quarteto de pipocas"—"Popcorn" Quartet) is the third of seventeen works in the medium by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, and was written in 1916. A performance lasts approximately twenty-three minutes.
Both sources agree the year of composition was 1951 and that the score is dedicated to the Quarteto Municipal de São Paulo. Analysis. Like most of Villa-Lobos's works in the medium, the quartet consists of four movements: Allegro non troppo; Scherzo (Vivace) Adagio; Allegro vivace; All four movements of this quartet are in ternary, ABA form.