Guillaume Lekeu - String Quartet in G major (1888)

Guillaume Lekeu

 (20 January 1870 – 21 January 1894) was a Belgian composer of classical music.

 String Quartet in G major (1888)

Quatuor à cordes en sol majeur (1888)

I. Allegretto quasi allegro [0:00]
II. Adagio sostenuto [9:44]
III. Capriccio poco allegro [18:40]
IV. Romance: Andantino molto moderato quasi andante [21:42]
V. Poco allegro e molto scherzoso [27:01]
VI. Final: Allegro assai e appassionato [29:18]

A string quartet by Belgian composer Guillaume Lekeu (1870-1894), a student of César Franck and Vincent d'Indy.

Quatuor Debussy.

Compositions

Lekeu composed about 50 works, and left a number of unfinished compositions at the time of his death. Two of these, a Cello Sonata and his Piano Quartet, were completed by D'Indy.^[5] All have been recorded at least once, and several of them more than once, notably the Violin Sonata in G Major and the Piano Trio in C minor. The first time Piano Sonata in G minor had been completely performed on live by pianist Paweł Albiński in Cracow on 20 August 2014.^[6]

His style, prophetic of early-twentieth-century avant-garde French composers like Satie and Milhaud, was influenced by Franck, Wagner and (especially in the Trio) Beethoven, though these influences did not manifest themselves as mere imitation. His larger compositions are cyclic in structure; that is, themes in his works will often recur from movement to movement, something no doubt inherited from a long tradition of nineteenth-century European composers, as well as from many works of Franck and d'Indy. In general, Lekeu is regarded as a highly talented composer whose death cut short a promising musical career.