The String Quartet
sun 12 jul 2020 14:00 hour
Johann Svendsen (1840-1911) studied in Leipzig, just like Niels Gade, Christian Horneman and Edvard Grieg. And there he composed his String Quartet in A minor, opus 1, his only work in this genre. In fact, it was a study assignment given by his teacher Carl Reinecke.
Asger Hamerik (1843-1923) was still young when he let himself be led by Gade, and next, he studied with Hans von Bülow. The short, one-part String Quartet in A minor of Hamerik dates from 1859, when the young composer was sixteen years old.
The Swedish composer Elfrida Andrée (1841-1929) was the first woman to conduct an orchestra in Sweden. She too studied with Gade. Her Second String Quartet stands in a long tradition of lyric, pleasant chamber music works, which were being written everywhere in Europe under the influence of the Leipziger Schule in the second half of the 19th century.
