Works
Cuarteto de cuerda n.º 3 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uaH-FRvQIs> (25-05-2023)
Of her 14 String Quartets, the third 3, the shortest, is also the most remarkable for its personal character and drama. Composed in 1838, it offers a powerful and dark sound, in which the instruments (two violins, viola and cello) appear intertwined as a dialogue that sometimes becomes canon. The four strings are transformed into four voices that oscillate between the Slow, Presto and Andante air, offering an elastic and modulating listening.
Information about the work and context of creation
Of her 14 String Quartets, the third 3, the shortest, is also the most remarkable for its personal character and drama. Composed in 1838, it offers a powerful and dark sound, in which the instruments (two violins, viola and cello) appear intertwined as a dialogue that sometimes becomes canon. The four strings are transformed into four voices that oscillate between the Slow, Presto and Andante air, offering an elastic and modulating listening.
Elisabeth Maconchy was a composer greatly influenced by the innovative currents of Central Europe. In her group of colleagues and friends, the British composers Dorothy Gow (1892-1982) and Grace Williams (1906-1977) and the Irish Ina Boyle (1889-1967) stand out. She has also been associated with Elisabeth Luytens (1906-1983) and with the conductor and composer Imogen Holst (1907-1984). His cantata The Land (1929), one of his first major works, is based on a long poem by the writer Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962).
Contemporary composers were the Americans, Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953), Louise Talma (1906-1996), Edna Mae Burnam (1907-2007), Miriam Gideon (1906-1996), Victoria Bond (1945), Libby Larsen (1950 ), Anne LeBaron (1953), Jennifer Linn (1960), Dinorá de Carvahlo (1904-1980), Hilda Paredes (1959) and Gloria Isabel Ramos (1964); the Europeans, Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983), Grace Mary Williams (1906-1977), Berta Alves de Sousa (1906-1997) and Priaulx Rainier (1903-1986). Among them, the Spanish Elena Romero (1923-1996), Mercé Torrents (1930) and María Dolores Malumbres (1931-2019).
Among the successor composers that survive to this day, we point out the African, Graziane Finzi (1945); the Russian, Elena Firsova (1950); the Australian, Anne Boyd (1946) and the Europeans, Carol Barratt (1945), Gisèle Barreau (1948), Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023), Violeta Dinescu (1953), Adriana Hölszky (1953), Regina Irman (1957) and Katrina Penman They are joined by the Spanish, Gloria Villanueva (1953), Carme Fernández Vidal (1970), Gloria Rodríguez (1972), María Mendoza (1975), Laura Vega (1978) and Sira Hernández.
Indications
As an example of Contemporary Music from the second half of the s. XX and English chamber music, it is appropriate in Secondary Education (4th) for active listening and dialogic gathering.
In the Professional and Higher Education of Music in the subject of Ensemble Music.
At the University, in Teacher Training, in those subjects with competences in Music.
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