String Quartet "0" - Karel Husa

6. květen 2009

Karel Husa - String Quartet "0"|foto:Nakladatelství ČRo

String Quartet "0" was written in 1942 - 43 during Husa´s studies at the Prague Conservatory, this quartet was not performed until the Apollon Quartet gave the first performance in Prague on 23 February 2000, in the Lichtenstein Palace, at the concert organized by the Society for contemporary music (Pritomnost).

It is Husa´s first composition, but it was not included in his works and thus No. 0. The composer considered it a "learning" piece and assigned his Sonatina for piano the "opus 1", although composed after the String Quartet. This three-movement composition develops in a great way with a most dramatic style and richly changing flow. It is an incredibly surprising and compositionally mature utterance. The interpreters are constantly and intensively busy.

Other compositions by Karel Husa published in Czech Radio:
Overture "Academy"
Sinfonietta

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