String Quartet (Blumenfeld)

Felix Blumenfeld's String Quartet in F major, Op. 26, is the composer's only work for the medium. Published in 1898, the quartet was dedicated to music publisher Mitrofan Belyayev.

Structure

The work is structured in four movements:

1. Allegro - Poco più tranquillo - Tempo I - Allegro molto
2. Presto - Molto meno mosso - Tempo del Scherzo (Presto) - Più mosso
3. Andantino - Poco più mosso - Largamente
4. Finale: Allegro molto - Un poco più tranquillo - Più mosso - Tempo I (Tranquillo) - Più tranquillo - Più mosso - Coda: Molto più mosso - Prestissimo

The first commercial recording of the quartet by the Odessa quartet was released by Profil in 2015.^[1]

References

Notes

1. Records International 2015

Sources

• "Sviatoslav's Daddy's String Quartet!". Records International. May 2015. Retrieved 2015-10-02.

External links

• String Quartet in F Major, Op.26 (Blumenfeld, Felix): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
• "Felix Blumenfeld: String Quartet in F Major, Op.26 (Soundbites and discussion)". Edition Silvertrust. Retrieved January 2015.
• Christiansen, Kai (2015). "Felix Blumenfeld: String Quartet in F major, Op. 26". Earsense Chamber Music Database.