String Quartet #16
Appleby Catalogue W number:
W526
The 16th String Quartet was written in Paris in 1955, and dedicated to Mindinha.
Movements:
- Allegro non troppo
- Molto andante - quasi adagio
- Vivace - scherzo
- Molto allegro
Year Composed:
Category:
Chamber Music
Instrumentation:
String Quartet
Scores:
Published by Max Eschig, Paris.
Recordings:
- Complete String Quartets (Cuarteto Latinoamericano)
- String Quartets #11, 16 & 17 (Marco Polo)
- String Quartets #15, 16, 17 (Bessler-Reis)
- Concurso internacional de quarteto de cordas 1966
You can listen to the Bessler-Reis Quartet playing Quartets 15, 16, & 17, streamed on the Internet on this page of the Radio UOL website.
Performances:
The premiere performance was by the Quarteto Rio de Janeiro, on September 13, 1958, in Rio.
There are four records in the Villa-Lobos Concerts database as of August 2009.