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The first string quartet to receive an opus number was in 1890: the String Quartet in B-flat major (Op. Afterwards he wrote no string quartets until Voces intimae in 1909. Sibelius composed the quartet from December 1908, working on it in London in early 1909.Ĭomposed between his Third and Fourth Symphony, it remained "the only major work for string quartet of Sibelius's mature period". The Latin title, translating to "Intimate Voices" or "Inner voices", marks a "conversational quality" and "inwardness" of the music. The composer wrote about his work in a letter to his wife: "It turned out as something wonderful. The kind of thing that brings a smile to your lips at the hour of death. I will say no more." Sibelius showed it to his publisher Robert Lienau on 15 April 1909.
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The first performance was on 25 April 1910 at the Helsinki Music Institute. Sibelius structured the quartet in five movements: It is not a composition for the public at large, it is so eccentric and out of the ordinary." Sibelius later wrote about the composition: "The melodic material is good but the harmonic material could be 'lighter', and even 'more like a quartet.'" Structure and music A review in the Helsingin Sanomat noted: "The composition attracted a great deal of attention, and it is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant products in its field.
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The work opens with a dialogue of violin and cello. The first movement contrasts "murmurous figuration with firm chords". The second movement is a scherzo in A major, connected to the first by musical motifs. The central slow movement has been described as a "soulful quest for serenity in F major". It contains "three detached, soft chords in E minor, remote from any of the previous harmonic implications", to which Sibelius added the " voces intimae" in a friend's score. A second scherzo is also connected by motivic similarity to the first movement. The finale, "with more than a hint of folk fiddling", grows in intensity by markings from Allegro to "sempre più energico" (always more energetic), described as "fiercely accented music of forceful contrasts but irresistible momentum". Ulrich Wilker: "Ein fernes Murmeln aus einer fernen Welt".Tomi Mäkelä: Jean Sibelius und seine Zeit (German), Laaber-Verlag, Regensburg 2013.Jahrhunderts (German), Verlag Hans Schneider, Tutzing 2004 Beat Föllmi (ed.): Das Streichquartett in der ersten Hälfte des 20.The Finnish violinist and composer Pekka Kuusisto has arranged the work for chamber orchestra, which was included in Kuusisto's 2009 Australian tour with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Zu Jean Sibelius’ Streichquartett "Voces intimae" d-Moll op. 56 (German), in: Stefan Börnchen/Claudia Liebrand (eds.): Lauschen und Überhören. Sibelius at the time of his final masterpiece, Tapiola (1926) Literarische und mediale Aspekte auditiver Offenheit, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn 2020, p. The Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) wrote over 550 original works during his eight-decade artistic career.
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This began around 1875 with a short miniature for violin and cello called Water Droplets ( Vattendroppar), and ended a few months before his death at age 91 with the orchestration of two earlier songs, Come Away, Death ( Kom nu hit, död) and Kullervo's Lament ( Kullervon valitus). However, the 1890s to the 1920s represent the key decades of Sibelius's production. Over this period, his style evolved "along two parallel lines: from the national to the universal on the one hand, and from the Romantic to the Classical on the other". Frequently, Sibelius found inspiration in the ancient metre and myths of Finland's national epic, the Kalevala. A second inspiration was the natural world, especially birds for example, he described the call of the crane as "the Leitmotiv of my life". Īfter 1926's Tapiola, Sibelius completed no new works of significance, although he infamously labored until the late-1930s or the early-1940s on his Eighth Symphony, which he never completed and probably destroyed c.