Quatour Symbolique = Quarteto Simbolico
Quatuor Symbolique = Quarteto Simbolico
Written in Rio in 1921, this work was dedicated to Mme. Santos Lobo.
"The piece does not end, but stops." - Wilfred Mellers, Singing in the Wilderness, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001, p. 85.
The first movement of the Quatuor, with
Victoria Davies - harp
Aleksandra Iwanicka - celesta
Karolina Ogrodowska - flute
Michal Grycko - alto saxophone
Flute, Alto Saxophone, Harp, Celesta, and Female Chorus - the chorus is optional, and doesn't appear in many perfromances.
Villa-Lobos, Heitor. 1930. Quatour: pour harpe, celesta, flûte et saxophone alto me bémol avec voix féminines. Paris: M. Eschig.
A page from the autograph score in the Museu Villa-Lobos:
The premiere performance was directed by Villa-Lobos in the Salao Nobre do Jornal do Comercio in Rio, on October 21, 1921. This work was included in the Villa-Lobos Festival in Paris in 1930.
There are six records for this work in the Villa-Lobos Concerts database as of January 2012.