composer

Brewaeys, Luc

Luc Brewaeys was born on August 25, in 1959 in Mortsel (Belgium) and passed away on December 18, in 2015. Education: He studied composition with André Laporte in Brussels (Belgium), with ...

related works

Nobody is Perfect ! (Jonathan Harvey Sixty) : for flute, clarinet and piano / Luc Brewaeys

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: fl cl pf

Strijkkwartet : 1987 / Bart van Rosmalen

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: String Quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring: 2vl vla vc

Linea : voor strijkkwartet, 2006 / Jacques Reuland

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: String Quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring: 2vl vla vc

Four strings : for string quartet, 1991 / Bernard van Beurden

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: String Quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring: 2vl vla vc

composition

Haydn ? : for string quartet / Luc Brewaeys

Description:
This work was composed in 2003 on commission of the Festival der Voorkempen (B) for the Danel String Quartet, who first perform it on May 6, 2004 in Schilde (B) and have performed it some 8 times in the next few months. The score is dedicated to cellist and artistic director of the festival Roel Dieltiens. "Haydn ?" was supposed to be some kind of variation(s) on the "Emperor's Theme" of Haydn's String Quartet. The piece starts with the theme played almost inaudibly by the First Violinist and "accompanied" in a strange spectral way by the others players. As the work continues, the theme is more and more "lost" in much more complex musical material, actually derived from the Final of my Seventh Symphony. The piece ends very quietly in the original tonality...