Forbidden Music Regained


Leo Smit Stichting
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strykkwartet I

By Nico Richter

genre
Chamber music
instrumentation
String Quartet (2 violins, viola, cello) (2 vl vla vc)
duration
4 minutes
year
1936
location of manuscript
www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl aanvraagnummer 326/015-1
status
published score
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in C major

About Nico Richter

Nico Richter

Almost all Nico Richter’s surviving compositions date from his student days. Most of them are ultrashort, inspired by Webern and Berg. As a student of medicine, he directed the student orchestra MUSA. He joined the resistance, was arrested in 1942 and sent to work in successive concentration camps. A physical wreck, he dictated his final composition on his deathbed just after liberation. His talent never reached full maturity.

by Dr. Julia Muller-van Santen