| 作曲者 | Jörg Widmann (b. 1973) |
| タイトル | 8. Streichquartett = String Quartet No. 8 |
| サブタイトル | Beethoven-Study III |
| 出版社 | Schott・ショット |
| 楽器編成 | String Quartet |
| 品番 | MDS979-0-001-21178-9 |
| 形状 | 152 ページ・23.1 x 30.3 cm・570 g・中綴じ |
| 出版年 | 2024年 |
| 出版番号 | ED 23349 |
| ISMN | 979-0-001-21178-9 |
| サンプル | https://mds-partner.com/en/preview/viewer/index/?idx=NDA0OTgw&idy=404980&dl=0 |
My String Quartet No. 8 is made up of three movements, and a fast tempo prevails almost throughout the entire work. The extreme brevity of the opening movement oscillates between rugged unisono passages and cascades of chords. The central movement is a set of variations based on the theme from the first eight bars of my beloved Alla danza tedesca, the enigmatic dance movement from Beethoven’s String Quartet op. 130. I have not written any explicit variations for many years. I feel as though the Beethoven theme has itself gone through a large number of transformations and is already teeming with exceptional rhythmic, melodic and harmonic features. I naturally take great pleasure in immersing myself in my variations with this permanent calling into question of assertions.
Although it has been a long-planned dream of mine to create something from this Beethoven theme, it is actually the final 3rd movement which has become the central and most extended section of the work: a Rondo-Presto which repeatedly becomes caught up, almost ad absurdum, in its own breathless playfulness. Jörg Widmann>