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Quartettino giocoso per gli bambini

By Ignace Lilien

genre
Chamber music
instrumentation
String Quartet (2 violins, viola, cello) (2vl vla vc)
year
1920
location of manuscript
www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl archive registration number 009/095
dedication

A mes petits neveux Adas et Dawisia

Details

Small cheerful quartet for children ‘in the style of the French school’

+ parts

Composed in Rome

About Ignace Lilien

Ignace Lilien

His hometown Lemberg, in the Ukraine known as Lviv, and in Poland as Lwów, has a history of occupation by shifting powers. This is why the Germans had trouble figuring out Ignace Lilien's real identity; he survived the war with forged documents. He worked as a chemical engineer, but that didn’t stop him from composing a large oeuvre. His life was as varied as his music, with influences ranging from Polish modernism to South American rhythms and timbres.

by Frans van Ruth