The String Quartet in Spain

This is the first monograph from a scientific perspective dealing with the String Quartets composed in Spain from the eighteenth century up to the present. It is the outcome of the research and thorough study of specific works, undertaken by twenty-one musicologists, archivers and performers, together with four Spanish composers. It aims both to offer an overview of the current state of research on the primary and secondary sources available, and to trace the history of the genre by examining its genesis, development and reception in the European context. All this fosters an understanding of: (1) the position of the genre in Spain from its emergence until nowadays, (2) its aesthetics and main compositional features in each period, (3) its idiosyncratic peculiarities, and (4) the particular challenges that it has posed along its history. In addition, other goals are: to banish some prejudices about Spanish chamber music, to contribute to the recuperation of a significant part of the Spanish musical heritage, and to provide scholars and performers with the musical sources, aiming at facilitating the knowledge and diffusion of a corpus of noteworthy yet barely known works.
Der Band befasst sich mit der Entwicklung des Streichquartetts in Spanien vom achtzehnten Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Er enthält 24 Studien zu Komponisten und konkreten Werken aus unterschiedlicher Perspektive und gibt Auskunft über die bis dato lokalisierten Primär- und Sekundärquellen.

Christiane Heine studied Musicology, Medieval History, Art History and Hispanic Philology at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg/Germany (PhD 1992). Since 1993 she holds a professorship in Music Analysis at the University of Granada/Spain. From 2012 to 2015 she coordinated a national R&D project focused on Spanish chamber music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Juan Miguel González Martínez is graduated in Hispanic Studies from the University of Murcia/Spain (PhD 1996) and qualified as a Recorder Senior Professor at the Conservatory of Music in Murcia. He received his bachelor-s degree in Musicology from the University of Granada. Currently he holds a professorship in Art History at the University of Murcia.

Christoph Flamm: Preface - Christiane Heine/Juan Miguel González Martínez: Introduction - José Carlos Gosálvez Lara: Fuentes documentales del cuarteto de cuerda en España (1770-c1920) - Miguel Ángel Marín: Haydn, Boccherini and the Rise of the String Quartet in Late Eighteenth-Century Madrid - Christiane Heine: Die zweite Blüte: Spanische Streichquartettproduktion im frühen 20. Jahrhundert - Germán Gan-Quesada: The String Quartet in Spain after 1960: Some Aesthetic Remarks - Christian Speck: Zum Streichquartettschaffen von Luigi Boccherini - Walter Kurt Kreyszig: Luigi Boccherini Composing his Opus ultimum under the Patronage of Spain: Inventiveness, Animation and Sensibility in the Sonata Form Movement of his Fragmentary String Quartet No. 91 in D major Op. 64 No. 2, G249 (1804) - Màrius Bernadó/José María Domínguez: João Pedro Almeida Mota: los cuartetos de un pasticheur en Madrid - Jorge Fonseca: Forma y textura en los primeros cuartetos de Manuel Canales - Marie Winkelmüller: Arriagas Verwendung des spanischen e-Modus. Ein neues Beispiel für eine ältere Tradition? - Tim S. Pack: The String Quartets of Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga: Experiments in Form, Harmony, and Counterpoint - Stéphan Etcharry: Identidad nacionalista en el Quatuor à cordes sur des thèmes populaires basques (1905) de José María Usandizaga: del material temático a su organización formal - Florence Doé de Maindreville: Le Quatuor à cordes op. 4 (1910) de Joaquín Turina à la lumière du contexte musical parisien de l-époque - John Stokes: A Critical Edition of Conrado del Campös String Quartet No. 8, "At the Death of his Mother" (1913): Defining the Scope of the Critical Process through the Creation of a Musically Viable Score for Interpreters - Gabrielle Kaufman: The Forgotten String Quartets (1927-1933) by Gaspar Cassadó - Itziar Larrinaga Cuadra: El Cuarteto en Sol (1936-1937) de Francisco Escudero: -un programa secreto? - Francisco García Álvarez: Félix Antonio: sus Cuartetos de cuerda - Torcuato Tejada Tauste: Conrado del Campös String Quartet No. 12 in B flat major (1948): An Approach to his Compositional Technique - Desirée García Gil: El Cuarteto Indiano (1951) de Xavier Montsalvatge - Henri Gonnard: Le 3e Quatuor à cordes (1958) de Julián Bautista au sein de l-évolution du langage musical au XXe siècle: une oeuvre atonale ou « tonétique »? - Rafael Liñán Vallecillos: Ramón Barce-s Quintessential String Quartet No. 5 (1978) Tomás Marco: Mis seis Cuartetos de cuerda - Alfredo Aracil: More than Composing for 4 Instruments - Benet Casablancas: Componer para cuarteto de cuerda hoy - la música de cámara en estado puro - José M. Sánchez-Verdú: Writings of Space and Memory: The String Quartet as locus amoenus