String Quartet

Composer: TAILLEFERRE, Germaine
  • Tailleferre wrote her only String Quartet between 1917-19 and dedicated it to Arthur Rubinstein.
  • Tailleferre originally sought to write a Sonatine for strings, but eventually adjusted the form to that of a string quartet.1
  • String Quartet consists of three movements:
    1. Modéré 
    2. Intermède
    3. Final. Vif2
  • Fun fact – fellow French composers Debussy and Ravel also famously only wrote one string quartet each.

Sources

  1. Tim Ashley, “DEBUSSY; RAVEL; TAILLEFERRE String Quartets (Stenhammar Quartet),” Gramophone, accessed September 30, 2025, https://www.gramophone.co.uk/reviews/review?slug=debussy-ravel-tailleferre-string-quartets-stenhammar-quartet.
  2. “String Quartet (Tailleferre, Germaine),” IMSLP, accessed September 30, 2025, https://imslp.org/wiki/String_Quartet_(Tailleferre,_Germaine).

Cut IDs

27511 27281