String Quintet "Les cieux inconnus" (Unknown Heavens) — Parts : string quintet

Rautavaara, Einojuhani
Title: String Quintet "Les cieux inconnus" (Unknown Heavens) — Parts : string quintet
Authors: Rautavaara, Einojuhani (Composer)
Product number: 9790550111820
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Publisher: Fennica Gehrman
Edition: 2015
Publication year: 2015
Language: undefined
Product family: Chamber music
String ensembles
Finnish library classification: 78.5142 Viisi jousisoitinta
Set of parts.

This work for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos was originally commissioned as a string quartet by the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in 1997. According to Rautavaara, it nevertheless seemed to acquire a will of its own: it clearly demanded a second cello. The subtitle, Les cieux inconnus, is from a poem by Charles Baudelaire which the composer set for male choir in the 1970s. The motif from the song appears again in this music.


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