related works
Two Shakespeare Sonnets : for mixed choir and ensemble / Marijn Simons
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
choir fl cl perc vl vc
Ode to Venus Williams : for string quartet / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vl vla vc
Fantasie : for string quartet, opus 1, 1987 / Marinus Degenkamp
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vl vla vc
Spring quartet : (Sightseeing V), strings, 1971 / Joep Straesser
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vl vla vc
composition
String quartet Nº 3 / Marijn Simons
Other authors:
Simons, Marijn
(Composer)
Contains:
Molto moderato
Allegro energico
Lento
Allegretto
Description:
I composed my "String Quartet no. 2" between 1996 and 1998. Six years later Stefan Metz commissioned me to compose another string quartet for the Orlando Festival 2005. My Second String Quartet has a few winks towards some great works from the classical repertoire, like Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth and Ninth Symphonies. The Third has some indirect quotes from three masterworks from the 20th-century orchestral repertoire. These are Aaron Copland's Third Symphony, Alban Berg's Violin Concerto and James MacMillan's "The Confession of Isobel Gowdie". - MARIJN SIMONS