Forbidden Music Regained


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Kwartet

By Daniƫl Belinfante

genre
Chamber music
instrumentation
Piano Quartet (piano, violin, viola, cello) (pf 2vl vc)
year
1927
status
autograph
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Details

Amsterdam early 1927

Quartet for piano, two violins and cello

1. Adagio

2. Allegro

3. Presto

First performance

May 30, 1932 With Daniel Belinfante, Eduard van Sloghem, Bram Bleekrode and J.F. Karel Coenen for VARA Radio

Images

Pianokwartet Darius le Beau.jpg
Pianokwartet Darius le Beau.jpg

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About Daniel Belinfante

(03/06/1893 - 01/27/1945)
Daniel Belinfante

Daniel Belinfante's manuscripts, donated in 1955 to the Dutch Music Institute in The Hague by his widow Martha Belinfante-Dekker, remained untouched for decades. It is an oeuvre of some 100 compositions consisting of solo concertos, an orchestral suite, string quartets, works for strings and piano, songs and choral works. During his lifetime, Belinfante's music was rarely performed. After his violent death in Fürstengrube, a subcamp of Auschwitz, it would take sixty years before his music was rediscovered.

by Marcel Worms