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The Bloomsbury Quartet - Wartime: Before, During and After
Royal Academy of Music Lunchtimes
Part of the Petworth Festival 2018
Add to my Calendar 20-07-2018 12:00 20-07-2018 14:00 36 The Bloomsbury Quartet - Wartime: Before, During and After In the first of several Festival events reflecting on the end of the First World War, the Royal Academy of Music’s Bloomsbury String Quartet present a programme featuring music inextricably linked with times of war. During a trip to Switzerland and just before the outbreak of The Great War, Stravinsky wrote Three Pieces for String Quartet. A century earlier Beethoven was living in Vienna when the city was invaded by Napoleon - characteristically he complained bitterly about how loud the bombing was. His String Quartet No.11 was composed shortly after. And in 1945, Benjamin Britten and Yehudi Menuhin went to Germany to perform to concentration camp survivors. On their return Britten composed his String Quartet No.2. Leconfield Hall, Petworth DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Leconfield Hall
Market Square
Petworth
West Sussex
GU28 0AH
England
Programme
Igor Stravinsky – 3 Pieces for String Quartet
Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet in F minor 'Serioso', Op.95
Benjamin Britten – String Quartet no.2 in C major, Op.36
Performers
Bloomsbury Quartet
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Programme Note
In the first of several Festival events reflecting on the end of the First World War, the Royal Academy of Music’s Bloomsbury String Quartet present a programme featuring music inextricably linked with times of war. During a trip to Switzerland and just before the outbreak of The Great War, Stravinsky wrote Three Pieces for String Quartet. A century earlier Beethoven was living in Vienna when the city was invaded by Napoleon - characteristically he complained bitterly about how loud the bombing was. His String Quartet No.11 was composed shortly after. And in 1945, Benjamin Britten and Yehudi Menuhin went to Germany to perform to concentration camp survivors. On their return Britten composed his String Quartet No.2.
