Alberto Evaristo Ginastera (1916-1983)

Quatuor à cordes n° 3 (1973)

for soprano and string quartet

  • General information
    • Composition date: 1973
    • Duration: 25 mn
    • Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
    • Opus: 40
    • Commission: Dallas Chamber Music Society and Public Library
    • Dedication: à la mémoire de John Rosenfield
    • Libretto (details, author):

      d’après des poèmes de Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rafael Alberti et Federico García Lorca

Detailed formation
  • solo soprano, violin, second violin, viola, cello

Premiere information

  • Date: 4 February 1974
    Location:

    États-Unis, Dallas


    Performers:

    Benita Valente et le Juilliard Quartet.

Table of contents

  1. Contemplativo
  2. Contemplativo
  3. Amoroso
  4. Drammatico
  5. Di nuovo Contemplativo