String Quartet No.4, Op.16 (Veit, Václav)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	4 movements
Composition Year	1840
Genre Categories	Quartets; For 2 violins, viola, cello; Scores featuring the violin; Scores featuring the viola; Scores featuring the cello; For 4 players

1 Performances
- 1.1 Naxos
2 Sheet Music
- 2.1 Parts
3 General Information
4 Navigation etc.

Performances

Naxos

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Sheet Music

Parts

Complete Parts
*#68428 - 4.78MB, 33 (facing) pp. - 0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 213×⇩ - KGill

PDF scanned by Theo Wyatt
KGill (2010/6/17)

Editor	First edition (reprint)
Publisher. Info.	Leipzig: Friedrich Hofmeister, n.d.[1840]. Plate 2517.
Reprinted	London: Merton Music, No.4305, n.d.[1996-2010].
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
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General Information

Work Title	String Quartet No.4
Alternative. Title
Composer	Veit, Václav
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No.	Op.16
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.	IVV 9
Key	G minor
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	4 movements: Allegro molto et appassionato Menuetto: Allegro ma non troppo Adagio Allegro assai - Andante con moto (Air de Bohème) - Allegro assai
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1840
First Performance.	1841
First Publication.	1840
Dedication	Karol Józef Lipiński (1790–1861)
Average DurationAvg. Duration	35 minutes
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello
Manuscript Sources	D-LEm PM-5266 CZ-Pk A-I-R 57 (Skolaudy abschrift)

Navigation etc.

et for ed in the first movement - somewhat macaronic mixture of French and Italian?

Composition date also 1840 per Brezina's notes to CD of quartets 1 & 2. (Notes to Toccata Classics recording of nos. 3 & 4 replace "et" with "ed" in any case. These same notes mention a review of the premiere in the 4 April 1841 "Bohemia, ein Unterhaltungsblatt".)