String Quartet #14
Appleby Catalogue W number:
W519
The 14th String Quartet was written in Rio in 1953, and dedicated to the Stanley Quartet.
Movements:
- Allegro
- Andante
- Scherzo - Vivace
- Molto Allegro
Thesis: PERFORMANCE ASPECTS OF STRING QUARTETS NUMBER 12, 13 AND 14 BY HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
Year Composed:
Category:
Chamber Music
Instrumentation:
String Quartet
Scores:
Published by Max Eschig, Paris.
Villa-Lobos, Heitor. 1958. Quatorzième quatuor a cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle. Paris: M. Eschig.
Recordings:
- Complete String Quartets (Cuarteto Latinoamericano)
- String Quartets #04, 06 & 14 (Marco Polo)
- String Quartets #12, 13, 14 (Bessler-Reis)
- Brazilian String Quartet: Villa-Lobos, Brandao
You can listen to the Bessler-Reis Quartet playing Quartets 12, 13, & 14, streamed on the Internet on this page of the Radio UOL website.
Performances:
The premiere performance was by the Stanley Quartet, on August 11, 1954, in the U.S.
There are two records in the Villa-Lobos Concerts database for this String Quartet as of August 2009.