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ELLIOTT CARTER
Quintet for Piano and String Quartet (1997)
Program Notes
Quintet for Piano and String Quartet (1997)
Elliott Carter
Program Note
Quintet for Piano and String Quartet was composed during the summer of 1997 for the pianist, Ursula Oppens and the Arditti
Quartet, commissioned for them by the Library of Congress with the intention of giving its premiere at a concert celebrating my 90th
birthday at the Library.
The work is in one movement of many changing characters and contrasts. The moods and materials of the piano are contrasted with
those of the string quartet, which, itself, is a combination of four different strands that maintain somewhat independent existences,
played by the four strings.
— Elliott Carter
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Quintet for Piano and String Quartet
Composer: Elliott Carter
Instrumentation: string quartet, pno
Premiering Artists: Ursula Oppens, piano;
Arditti String Quartet
Duration: 16'
Publisher Contact
Boosey & Hawkes
http://www.boosey.com/cr/music/E
lliott-Carter-Quintet-for-pianoand-string-quartet/3066
Artist Contact
Arditti Quartet official site
http://www.ownvoice.com/ardittiq
uartet/
Ursula Oppens @ colbertartists.com
http://colbertartists.com/Artist
Bio.asp?ID=41
Elliot Carter © 2000 Meredith Heuer
Arditti Quartet. Credit: Astrid Karger
Ursula Oppens. Credit: Christian Steiner
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