String Quartet #11
Appleby Catalogue W number:
W481
The 11th String Quartet was written in 1947, and dedicated to Mindinha.
Movements:
- Allegro non troppo
- Scherzo vivace
- Adagio
- Poco andantino - quasi allegro
Year Composed:
Category:
Chamber Music
Instrumentation:
String Quartet
Scores:
Published by Southern Music Publishers, New York.
Villa-Lobos, Heitor. 1966. String quartet no. 11: for 2 violins, viola and 'cello. New York [etc.]: Southern Music Pub. [etc.].
Recordings:
- Complete String Quartets (Cuarteto Latinoamericano)
- String Quartets #11, 16 & 17 (Marco Polo)
- String Quartets #7-11 (Quarteto Amazônia)
- Mozart, Villa-Lobos, Nepomuceno, Brandão (Quarteto Brasileiro da UFRJ)
- Concurso internacional de quarteto de cordas 1966
You can listen to the Bessler-Reis Quartet playing Quartets 7 & 11, streamed on the Internet on this page of the Radio UOL website.
Performances:
Premiere performance by the Quarteto Iacovino in Rio in 1953.
There are two records in the Villa-Lobos Concerts database for this String Quartet as of August 2009.