Forbidden Music Regained

Leo Smit Stichting
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Quatuor à cordes

By Ignace Lilien

genre
Chamber music
instrumentation
String Quartet (2 violins, viola, cello) (2vl vla vc)
duration
25 minutes
year
1948
location of manuscript
www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl archive registration number 009/096a+b
status
published score
www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl catalogue application number NMI 11887

Details

Lento maestoso
Allegro
Thema con variazioni
Tempo di tarantella (Presto con brio)

+ parts (part for 2nd violin is missing)

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