general information

composition date
2001
duration
17 min
editor
Boosey & Hawkes

type

Chamber music (Wind and string quartet)

detailed formation

oboe, violin, viola, cello

information about the creation

date
September 2, 2001

Suisse, Lucerne, Matthaeuskirche

interpreters

Heinz Holliger : hautbois, Thomas Zehetmair : violon, Ruth Killius : alto, Thomas Demenga : violoncelle.

Program note

The Oboe Quartet is built up from a series of six duets, which cover every possible combination of the four instruments. Each duet lasts just a minute or two, and the other two instruments provide an accompaniment. When I wrote the Oboe Concerto for Heinz Holliger, he showed me the amazing things he could do, such as multiphonics and glissandi, and I incorporated them into the concerto. But this new piece doesn’t have any of those sounds in it. My works now are not really experimental in terms of special effects, but rather in the way the music is organized.



Elliott Carter.

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