Joaquín Turina Joaquín Turina Pérez (9 December 188214 January 1949) was a Spanish composer of classical music.''Encyclopædia Britannica'' online (2014)"Joaquín Turina"/ref> Biography Turina was born in Seville. He studied in Seville as well as in Madri ...

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in G minor, Op. 1 was composed in 1907 at the age of 24 while he studied at the

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in Paris with Vincent d'Indy, and it was the composer's first published composition. It was premiered on 6 May that year in the Salle Aeolian by the Parent Quartet, to whose leader,

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, it was dedicated, while the first Spanish performance took place on 22 September in Sevilla. Ten days later the Quintet was awarded a prize in the Salon d'Automne by a jury composed of Bourgault-Ducoudray, Bruneau, Fauré, d'Indy, Magnard,

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, Parent, and Pierné. The composition, lasting c.30 minutes, is inscribed in the Franckian tradition. It consists of four movements which do not follow strictly the traditional sonata scheme as Turina fuses the scherzo and slow movement and precedes the sonata-allegro with a slow

fugue In music, a fugue () is a contrapuntal compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches) and which recurs frequently in the c ...

. The movements are marked in Spanish, French and Italian: #Fuga lenta #Animé #Andante — Scherzo #Final Turina didn't favour the Quintet's performance in later stages of his career as he considered it an impersonal work.Composition profile
in joaquinturina.com It was recovered in 1982 in the composer's centenary commemorations.

Discography

C. Busch ( vn), Menuhin Festival Piano Quartet. Claves, 1994
B. Ambrosini, Greenwich Quartet. Almaviva, 2001

References

External links

* * {{Authority control 1907 compositions Compositions by Joaquín Turina

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