Luciano Berio
Glosse
Duration: 6'
Dedication: a Leonardo Pinzauti, con sincero affetto e profonda<BR>stima, nel suo settantesimo compleanno
Instrumentation details:
1st violin
2nd violin
viola
violoncello
Berio - Glosse for string quartet
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Luciano Berio
Berio: Glosse for string quartetOrchestration: for string quartet
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Luciano Berio
Berio: Glosse for string quartetOrchestration: for string quartet
Type: Stimmensatz
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Work introduction
The birth of a musical work is a complex and mysterious matter - although often unintentionally so. It is perhaps for this reason that the composer is often reticent to describe the genesis of his works.
I had already been working sporadically for some time on a new string quartet (the fourth), when I was asked to contribute an obligatory finalists' piece to the Borciani Competition. Glad to render homage to the memory of Borciana and the Italian Quartet, I took the sketches, which I had been collecting and modifying here and there, and gathered them together in such a way as to avoid the impression of a homogeneous development or of continuous variation. I thus gave up the idea of a "fourth quartet" and in its place Glosse was born, made up of short commentaries on a virtual quartet or, more precisely, on a quartet which does not exist - a rather complex and mysterious matter...
Luciano Berio