Egon Wellesz - String Quartet No. 4

[@hadenplouffe3976]

An exceedingly intriguing quartet (so far, lol)! I shall have to check out his other entries in the genre.

[@NovicebutPassionate]

"Egon Wellesz studied music only briefly with Arnold Schoenberg but remained forever captivated by his personality. Yet, unlike Alban Berg or Anton Webern, he never wholly succumbed to his master but developed his own style: in the 1920s he emerged as a distinctive opera composer, and after emigrating to Britain in 1938 became a prolific symphonist who also produced sensitive settings of English poetry. Schoenberg resented this lack of loyalty, and not only refused to acknowledge Wellesz as a pupil but rather directed at him some intemperate outbursts. Moreover, Schoenberg's general mistrust of musicologists extended to Wellesz, who had trained at Vienna University with Guido Adlerand later helped to shape the study of music in British universities. Yet, as the first biographer, Wellesz did much to promote Schoenberg's cause, especially in France and England." Source: books.google.ca/books/about/Arnold_Schoenberg_and_Egon_Wellesz.html?id=vXlazQEACAAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y

[@vorgalomikoli]

Awesome!

[@richtrophicherbs]

Very Bartok around 10.00 and later. Sounds almost like a quote from one of Bartok's quartets.

[@hectorbarrionuevo6034]

I suspect Egon Wellesz could be considered almost as a member of the so called Second Viennese School (along with E. Krenek). I guess they were all influenced by (or did influence) the development of Expressionism in music. Both Wellesz (ancient sacred music) and Webern (Renaissance polyphony) participated in the development of the nascent field of musicology.

[@ronaldbwoodall2628]

This quartet sounds nice, but in an idiom I usually find hard to fully appreciate on first hearing. It's intriguing, enticing, introspective, but in need of better acquaintance on my part. Wellesz is a composer I'd like to better appreciate; maybe it will happen.

[@kuang-licheng402]

good

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