String Quartet No. 1 George Theophilus Walker

Titel / Title: String Quartet No. 1
Herausgeber / Publisher: Lauren Keiser Music Publishing
Instrumentation: Streichquartett
Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen
Serie / Series: LKM Music
Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 1946
UPC: 884088303914

Pulitzer Prize winning composer George Walker's first string quartet was composed in 1946 after his graduation from the Curtis Institute of Music and debut as a prodigious piano soloist with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra. The first movement presents strongly contrasting themes in a clearly defined sonata form. The second Adagio movement would later become the basis of Walker's most popular work, Lyric for Strings. The third movement is a large-scaled Rondo which closes with a reflective coda.