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String Quartet No. 2 (Piston)
String Quartet No. 2 by Walter Piston is a Chamber music, chamber-music work composed in 1935 in music, 1935. History Piston's second string quartet was composed two years after his String Quartet No. 1 (Piston), First Quartet and, like it, was premiered by the Chardon Quartet, on March 16, 1935. It was written, together with the Piano Trio, while Piston was on a Guggenheim Fellowship. Analysis The quartet is in three movement (music), movements: #Lento () – Allegro () #Adagio molto e con espressione () #Allegro giusto () The restlessly chromaticism, chromatic Lento introduction to the first movement is built on a three-note motive, A–C–D, that is found also in a number of the composer's other works. The boisterous main allegro portion of the movement is in A minor and Sonata form, sonata-allegro form. The slow movement is based on the motive from the Lento introduction of the first, and is in a chromatically inflected C major. The finale is in changing meters, with a Disson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Piston
Walter Hamor Piston, Jr. (January 20, 1894 – November 12, 1976), was an American composer of classical music, music theorist, and professor of music at Harvard University. Life Piston was born in Rockland, Maine at 15 Ocean Street to Walter Hamor Piston, a bookkeeper, and Leona Stover. He was the second of four children. Although his family was mainly of English origin, his paternal grandfather was a sailor named Antonio Pistone, who changed his name to Anthony Piston when he came to Maine from Genoa, Italy. In 1905 the composer's father, Walter Piston Sr, moved with his family to Boston, Massachusetts. Walter Jr first trained as an engineer at the Mechanical Arts High School in Boston, but was artistically inclined. After graduating in 1912, he enrolled in the Massachusetts Normal Art School, where he completed a four-year program in fine art in 1916. During the 1910s, Piston made a living playing piano and violin in dance bands and later playing violin in orchestras led by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |