Gideon Klein

Gideon Klein (1919-c.1944)

Nationality: Czech | Moravian
Born: December 6, 1919, Přerov, Moravia Died: c.December 31, 1944 (age 25)
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Fantasie a Fuga for String Quartet

(for 2 violins, viola and cello)
I. Fantasie. Lento - Andante cantabile - Largo
II. Fuga. Largo
Duration: 7 minutes (approximately)
Composed: 1942-1943 (age 22-24)
1 recording, 1 videos
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Hawthorne String Quartet

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Alois Hába
Alois Hába (1893-1973)
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Nationality: Czech
Born: June 21, 1893, Vizovice Died: November 28, 1973, Prague (age 80)

glossary

  • andante [I]—moderately slow tempo (e.g. walking). Faster than adagio but slower than allegretto
  • cantabile, cantate, cantando—singing, lyrical, flowing
  • chamber music, Kammermusik [G], musique de chambre [F], musica da camera [I], musica cameralis [L]—"Classical Music" for a small ensemble, generally 8 or fewer players with a canonical emphasis on 3-6 players. explore
  • fantasia, fantasy, fantazy, fantazia, phantasy, phantasie, fancy, fantasie [G], fantaisie [F] —generally, a piece of music favoring a free flight of expression over strict adherence to formal rules; suggesting an improvisational character. However, there are at least two more specific historical meanings: 1) the fantasia/fantasie/fancy of English Renaissance viol consort music and 2) Cobbett's Phantasie, an early 20th century form of single-movement chamber music inspired by the Renaissance fancy with the goal of stimulating new English chamber or "consort" music.
  • fugue, fuga, fuge [G], fuguette, fugen [G,pl]—a contrapuntal procedure (form) involving a musical subject (theme) that is successively imitated by multiple overlapping voices. There is a vast canon of rules (concepts) for creating elaborate and diverse fugues with an infinite variety of character based on fairly specific parameters. Fugues (or partial fugato) are found throughout classical music from the late Renaissance to the present.
  • largo—slow, solemn, sustained.slower than lento. faster than grave
  • lento, lent [F], lentement [F], avec lenteur [F]—slow (tempo)
  • string quartet, Streichquartett [G], quatuor à cordes [F], quartetto d'archi [I], quartetto di cordi [I], cuarteto de cuerda [S], vonósnégyes [H]—an ensemble as well as music written for that ensemble comprising 2 violins, viola and cello. This is one of the essential genres / forms / ensembles of chamber music and arguably a critical "core" of "classical" music.
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