String Quintet In C Minor Op. 38 The Bullet
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SKU: BT.SJQ19935
Composed by George Onslow. Classical. Set of Parts. S J Music #SJQ19935. Published by S J Music (BT.SJQ19935).This edition of Onslow's fifteenth String Quintet has the advantage of being either a two Viola or a two Cello quintet, as it is published with parts for two cellists or two violists. It is a major work, with goodparts for all players, with the 1st Violin part having a particularly large numbers of fast semi quavers (sixteenths) in the outer movements.
It is known as 'The Bullet' due to the circumstances of its composition: Onslowwas boar hunting in the Auvergne when a theme occurred to him. He dismounted and sat on a nearby fallen tree trunk and wrote it down. A boar then burst from the bushes and his companions fired, missing the boar and hittingOnslow.The quintet was completed on his recovery and graphically illustrates his sufferings. George Onslow, an Anglo-French composer, was born in Clermont-Ferrand in July 1784 and died there in October 1853.