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\n \n About work:

Zeljenka's String Quartet was performed for the first time by the Slovak Quartet, for whom the work was written, on the 23rd of Septemeber, 1963 in Bratislava. It is without a doubt the ripest chamber work written by the composer up till now.
It forms three short movements, wherein the first and third the structures correspond, the second being expressively contrasting. All three, however, are repose primarily on sound and interpreting quality of the individual instruments.
The first movement is based on a three-part form wherein confronting passages appear, developed out of several isolated interval structures and rhytmic models, and a passage of larger counterpoint developing of horizontal lines. The second movement, with the use of graphic notation, in an interesting manner shows the mingling of the sonorous characteristics of electronic music. The main explicit item is dynamics and articulation, whereby detailed rhytmic articulation is, as far as the fixing of certain length of time beat goes, a matter left over to the players themselves. In the third movement the author returns to the tectonic principle of the first movement, whereby he goes still further in applying the effect of contrasting density of composition.


\n (Ladislav Mokrý, in: foreword to the score, Panton 1965)
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\n Movements:
\n\n MM=160\n 4'\n
\n\n [without tempo marking]\n 3'\n
\n\n MM=126\n 3' 30''\n
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First performance in Slovakia

\n \n \n 23.09.1963,\n Bratislava,\n SK\n\n
Performers: The Slovak Quartet\n
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