Walker: String Quartet No. 1

Description

• Composer: George Walker (1922-2018)
• Format: Score & Set of Parts
• Instrumentation: String Quartet (Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Cello)
• Work: String Quartet No. 1
• Binding:
• UPC: 884088303914
• Size: 9.0 x 12.0 inches
• Pages: 36

Description

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.