STREICHQUARTETT NO. 1
ANGEREGT DURCH 'DIE KREUTZERSONATE' VON LEO TOLSTOI

COMPOSER / AUTHOR: JANÁCEK, LEOS
DETAILED INSTRUMENTATION: VIOLA, VIOLIN (2), VIOLONCELLO
VOLUME / SERIES: BÄRENREITER URTEXT
EDITOR: FALTUS, LEOS / STEDRON, MILOS
PRODUCT FORMAT: SET OF PARTS, URTEXT EDITION
INSTRUMENTATION: VIOLA, VIOLIN (2), VIOLONCELLO
PUBLISHER: BÄRENREITER
BINDING: STAPLED
PRINT RUN:1. AUFL. 2008

DESCRIPTION:
-IN OCTOBER 1923 THE CZECH QUARTET INVITED LEOS JANACEK TO “COMPOSE SOMETHING FOR THEM”.

-THIS PROVIDED THE STIMULUS FOR HIS FIRST STRING QUARTET. THE WORK WAS INSPIRED BY TOLSTOY’S “ KREUTZER SONATA” (WHICH HE HAD WRITTEN INFLUENCED BY BEETHOVEN’S FAMOUS VIOLIN SONATA).

-JANACEK HAD ALSO READ TOLSTOY’S STORY EARLIER IN THE ORIGINAL RUSSIAN AND ALREADY AT THAT TIME IT HAD INSPIRED HIM TO COMPOSE A PIANO TRIO IN 1907 WHICH WAS LATER LOST.

-JANACEK’S STRING QUARTET IS A MASTERWORK BY THE ALMOST 70-YEAR-OLD COMPOSER. THE WORK SPARKED A CREATIVE IMPULSE WHICH CONTINUED WITH THE COMPOSITION OF THE SECOND STRING QUARTET “INTIMATE LETTERS” IN THE LAST YEARS OF THE COMPOSER’S LIFE.

- URTEXT FROM THE “CRITICAL COMPLETE EDITION OF THE WORKS OF LEOS JANACEK”
- ALL AVAILABLE SOURCES HAVE BEEN TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION
- DETAILED FOREWORD (CZ/ENG/GER) BY MILOS STEDRON