Suite for String Quartet.

When in 1986 I started writing a piano piece that was supposed to have Spanish reminiscences (it would have something to do with the Alhambra’s Generalife) I didn’t suspect that it would come out as a String Quartet that will propel my writing techniques.

From December 20th 1986 through March 15th 1987, I composed the original piano piece that you can easily watch at the end of this post, in the embedded pdf. I have a registration of this piece from 1987 (a vertical piano with a microphone attached to the top) that shows the way this composition was at an early stage.

This work remains untouched until 1990, when I decided to arrange it and expand it into a seven part String Quartet. I have learned many things and my composition skills were more accurate. And the final process can be heard in both YouTube Video in my Tonnerre de Brest Channel and in the embedded MP3 file.

Here is the embed from YouTube.

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Here is the MP3 embed of the song:

“Suite for String Quartet” 8:22

1990 String Quartet
© VAV 1995

And here is the MP3 of the piano version.

“Suite” 3:54
© VAV 1986/87

This is the Full Score of the Suite for String Quartet.

1990 String Quartet

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This are the Particellas of the four parts of the Suite.

1990 String Quartet
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And here is the Score of the original piano version.

1986 Piano solo

© VAV 1995