#ClassicsADay #ClassicalQuartet Week 2

April is the fourth month of the year. And so the Classics a Day team decided to make it quartet month. This April the challenge is to post classical works that require four musicians. String quartets are the most common grouping of four -- but there are others. 

A piano trio has four players. And many 20th and 21st-Century quartets bring together unusual combinations of instruments. There's a lot to choose from!

Here are my posts for the second week of #ClassicsaDay for April's #ClassicalQuartet.

04/10/23 Englebert Humperdink: String Quartet Op. 164

Today, he's mainly remembered for his opera "Hansel and Gretel." But Humperdinck had quite a lot of music in his catalog. His lone string quartet was written in 1920, the year before he died.

04/11/23 Ethel Smyth: String Quartet in E minor

Smyth only wrote one quartet. She completed it in 1902, and revised it ten years later.

04/12/23 Emilie Mayer: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 14

Meyer wrote seven string quartets throughout her career. Only the one in G minor was published in her lifetime.

04/13/23 Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E-flat major

Felix's sister wrote her only quartet in 1835. She wasn't entirely happy with it. In a letter to her brother she admitted she felt more comfortable with shorter forms.

04/14/23 Hans Rott: String Quartet in C major

Rott wrote this in 1876, when he was 18. Both Mahler and Bruckner admired his brilliance, and were devastated when he died in 1884, just 26 years old.