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Rued Langgaard

Rued Langgaard (1893-1952)

Nationality: Danish
Born: July 28, 1893, Copenhagen Died: July 10, 1952, Ribe (age 59)
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String Quartet No. 2, BVN 145

(for 2 violins, viola and cello)
8:36 I. Bortdragende Stormskyer [Storm Clouds Receding]. Allegro focoso
2:19 II. Bortkørende Tog [Train passing by]. Poco moderato - Presto
6:19 III. Skumrende Landskab [Landscape in Twilight]. Andante pastorale
7:58 IV. Vandring [The Walk]. Poco lento elegiaco - Poco allegro alla marcia risoluto
Duration: 23 minutes (approximately)
Composed: 1918 (age 24-25)
Revised: 1931 (age 37-38)
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8:36
Nightingale String Quartet
I. Bortdragende Stormskyer [Storm Clouds Receding]. Allegro focoso
2:19
Nightingale String Quartet
II. Bortkørende Tog [Train passing by]. Poco moderato - Presto
6:19
Nightingale String Quartet
III. Skumrende Landskab [Landscape in Twilight]. Andante pastorale
7:58
Nightingale String Quartet
IV. Vandring [The Walk]. Poco lento elegiaco - Poco allegro alla marcia risoluto

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Carl Nielsen
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
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Nationality: Danish
Born: June 9, 1865, Sortelung, Funen Died: October 3, 1931, Copenhagen (age 66)

glossary

  • allegro [I]—fast, lively tempo. From the Italian word for cheerful or gay.
  • andante [I]—moderately slow tempo (e.g. walking). Faster than adagio but slower than allegretto
  • 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
  • elegy, elégie [F], elegie [G], elegisch, elegiaco, elegaico [I], élégiaque [F]—a plaintive, mournful poem, more specifically a lament for the dead. Usually implies a slow tempo, a minor key and a dark poignancy with potential spikes of tragic agony or, just as well, a gentle, bright flowering into nostalgic love of great tenderness. A musical narrative combining all of these moods is a hauntingly faithful representation of grief
  • focoso [I]—fiery, passionate, animated, vehement
  • lento, lent [F], lentement [F], avec lenteur [F]—slow (tempo)
  • marcia [I], alla marcia, marche [F], Marsch [G], march [E], marciale, marziale—march, in the manner of a march, e.g. duple meter at a moderate but deliberate pace in a manner which may be proud, grand, like a parade or a show of military bravado.
  • moderato [I], moderamente, modéré [F], modérément [F]—moderately, at a moderate tempo, applying a touch of restraint to its related word(s), e.g. allegro moderato
  • pastorale, pastoral—referring to the bucolic setting of shepherds, the countryside and an idealized relationship to nature
  • presto—very fast, more so than allegro.
  • quartet, quatuor [F], quartett [G], quartetto [I], cuarteto [S]—ensemble or work for four players the most important examples being the string quartet and the piano quartet
  • risoluto [I], resoluto—resolute, decisively, boldly, with vigor
  • string quartet, Streichquartett [G], quatuor à cordes [F], quartetto d'archi [I], quartetto di cordi [I], cuarteto de cuerda [S]—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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