Music for Four Stringed Instruments

By Charles Martin Loeffler

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Instrument:

Cello sheet music

Viola sheet music

Violin sheet music

Ensemble:

String Quartet

Format:

Score and Parts

Set of Parts

Level:

Advanced

Publisher:

Wolfhead Music

Detailed Description

String quartet 2 violins, viola, cello - Advanced
Composed by Charles Martin Loeffler. Chamber music. String quartet in late romantic/early contemporary style. Late Romantic/Contemporary. Score and parts. Duration 25 minutes. Published by Wolfhead Music (WF.WM107).

Item Number: WF.WM107

Music for Four Stringed Instruments was composed in 1917 at the height of the First World War and was dedicated to the memory of Victor Chapman, the son of a close friend and the first American airman killed in the conflict. Plainchant is used decisively in the structure of the work, the Resurrexi figuring prominently throughout the quartet. The Resurrexi becomes a secondary motif to the Victimae paschali in the second movement (subtitled 'Easter Sunday') but regains preeminence in the climactic third movement to affirm spiritual victory over earthly sorrow. A Lorraine march tune also appears briefly in the third movement, which is highly programmatic. Largely Impressionistic, the quartet also is infused with rich Romantic harmonies that reveal a cosmopolitan approach to compositional structure.