The Fauré Quartet is a German piano quartet , named after Gabriel Fauré . Founded in 1995, they have performed internationally and recorded, including works written for them by composers such as Volker David Kirchner and Toshio Hosokawa .
10-679: The piano quartet was founded in 1995 at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe and played its first concert there in January 1996. The players were at the beginning of their studies, which they continued at the Musikhochschule Köln . The Fauré Quartet has remained unchanged, with Erika Geldsetzer (violin), Sascha Frömbling (viola), Konstantin Heidrich (cello) and Dirk Mommertz (piano). They recorded piano quartets by Schumann, Dvořák, Fauré and Suk for
20-906: A string trio consisting of a violin , viola and cello . Piano quartets for that standard lineup were written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Robert Schumann , Ludwig van Beethoven , Johannes Brahms , Antonín Dvořák and Gabriel Fauré among others. In the 20th century , composers have also written for more varied groups, with Anton Webern 's Quartet , opus 22 ( 1930 ), for example, being for piano, violin, clarinet and tenor saxophone , and Paul Hindemith 's quartet (1938) as well as Olivier Messiaen 's Quatuor pour la fin du temps (1940) both for piano, violin, cello and clarinet. An early example of this can be found in Franz Berwald 's quartet for piano, horn, clarinet and bassoon from 1819, his opus 1. A rare form of piano quartets consist of two pianos with two players at each piano. This type of ensemble
30-1100: A year. In addition, it performs internationally in concert series and festivals. In 2008, the Fauré Quartet and the Duisburg Philharmonic played the German premiere of the Symphonie Concertante by Alexandre Tansman , a concerto for piano quartet and orchestra, composed in 1932. Volker David Kirchner composed four works for the Fauré Quartet: Echo und Narziss, Poème for piano quartet (2005), Psyche und Eros (2009), Der Große Tango (2012) and Klavierquartett IV (2015). In 2016, Toshio Hosokawa wrote for them The Water of Lethe , premiered in Heidelberg . The members have teaching assignments in Berlin ( Berlin University of
40-477: Is an incomplete list of piano quartets by famous and lesser-known composers. Ordering is by surname of composer. 1930 in music This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1930. After $ 75 million in sales during 1929, the stock market crash in October nearly destroyed
50-568: Is informally referred to as "eight-hand piano", or "two piano eight hands". Eight-hand piano was popular in the late 19th century before the advent of recordings as it was a mechanism to reproduce and study symphonic works. Music lovers could hear the major symphonic works all in the convenience of a parlour or music hall that had two pianos and four pianists. Many of the popular works of Mozart, Schumann, Brahms and Dvořák were transcribed for two piano eight hands. The majority of 8 hand piano music consists of transcriptions, or arrangements. The following
60-642: The Arts ) and Munich ( University of Music and Performing Arts Munich ), and teach master classes in Germany, Italy, Norway and the United States. In addition, the musicians have been trying for years to bring classical music closer to young people and children through children's concerts and the "Rhapsody in school" initiative. In 2009, they expanded their repertoire with modern arrangements of selected songs from pop history. Deutsche Grammophon published this compilation under
70-428: The industry, after forty years of consistent operation. Sales fell to $ 18 million in 1930 and to under $ 6 million in 1931. The top popular records of 1930 listed below were compiled from Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890–1954 , record sales reported on the " Discography of American Historical Recordings " website, and other sources as specified. Numerical rankings are approximate, there were no Billboard charts in 1930,
80-428: The island of Rügen , and directed it for the first years. In autumn 2018, the ensemble's album with arrangements of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and five of Rachmaninov's Études-Tableaux was released. Piano quartet A piano quartet is a chamber music composition for piano and three other instruments, or a musical ensemble comprising such instruments. Those other instruments are usually
90-614: The label "Ars Musici". Since 2005, they recorded quartets by Mozart, Brahms and Mendelssohn for Deutsche Grammophon . In 2014, Sony Classical released an album with piano quartets and songs by Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, with soprano Simone Kermes . The Fauré Quartet is regarded a pioneer in the piano quartet genre. In 2004, the Karlsruhe Hochschule appointed the quartet as its "Ensemble in Residence". In this capacity, it has given concerts and taught master classes several times
100-537: The title Popsongs . For this album, the quartet worked closely with the German producer Sven Helbig , who also arranged two songs for them. In 2013, they played the world premiere of his Pocket Symphonies , twelve short works for piano quartet and orchestra, which was also recorded for Deutsche Grammophon. In 2011, the Fauré Quartet performed on " Dein Song [ de ] ". The quartet initiated an annual international chamber music festival, Festspielfrühling Rügen , on
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