String Quartet #17
Appleby Catalogue W number:
W537
The 17th String Quartet was written in 1957, and dedicated to Mindinha.
Movements:
- Allegro non troppo
- Molto lento
- Scherzo
- Allegro vivace
Year Composed:
Category:
Chamber Music
Instrumentation:
String Quartet
Scores:
Published by Max Eschig, Paris.
Villa-Lobos, Heitor. 1977. Dix-septieme quatuor a cordes (2 violons, alto, violoncelle). Paris: Editions M. Eschig.
Recordings:
- Complete String Quartets (Cuarteto Latinoamericano)
- String Quartets #11, 16 & 17 (Marco Polo)
- String Quartets #15, 16, 17 (Bessler-Reis)
- Boccherini, Siquera, Henrique Oswald, Villa-Lobos (Quarteto Brasileiro da UFRJ)
- Brazilian String Quartet: String Quartets Nos. 1, 6 & 17
- Brazilian Quartets - Villa-Lobos & Nepomuceno
- Villa-Lobos: na música de câmara
Performances:
The premiere performance was on October 16, 1959, by the Budapest Quartet in Washington DC.
There are five records in the Villa-Lobos Concerts database for this String Quartet as of August 2009.