• Source: String Quartet (Debussy)

Claude Debussy completed his String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 (L.91), in 1893 when he was 31 years old. It is Debussy's only string quartet.




Background


In 1892, Debussy had just abandoned the opera Rodrigue et Chimène. He planned to write two string quartets, only one of which he completed. The quartet was meant to be dedicated to composer Ernest Chausson, but Chausson's personal reservations diverted this intention.
The quartet received its premiere on December 29, 1893 by the Ysaÿe Quartet at the Société Nationale in Paris to mixed reactions.




Analysis


The work consists of four movements:

Its sensuality and impressionistic tonal shifts are emblematic of its time and place and its cyclic structure constitutes a divorce from the rules of classical harmony into a new style. After its premiere, composer Guy Ropartz described the quartet as "dominated by the influence of young Russia; there are poetic themes, rare sonorities, the first two movements being particularly remarkable." Debussy said that "Any sounds in any combination and in any succession are henceforth free to be used in a musical continuity."
Maurice Ravel, another impressionist composer, wrote a string quartet that is modeled after Debussy's.




References


Citations




External links


String Quartet in G Minor: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
Performance of String Quartet by the Borromeo String Quartet at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in MP3 format
'Debussy Quartet in G minor, Op. 10', lecture by Roger Parker and performance by the Badke Quartet at Gresham College, 29 January 2008
Notes by Ong Yong Hui (archived via Internet Archive)
Notes by Keith Anderson

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