Guitar Quintet, Op. 143

Composer: CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO, Mario
  • Castelnuovo-Tedesco composed his Quintette pour guitar et quatuor à cordes (Quintet for Guitar and String Quartet) in 1950.1
  • This work was dedicated to Andrès Segovia, who gave the premiere on April 26, 1951, with the Paganini Quartet, at the Wilshire-Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles.2
  • Castelnuovo-Tedesco composed almost 100 pieces for guitar, greatly contributing to the instrument’s modern repertoire.3

Sources

  1. “Quintette pour guitar et quatuor à cordes,” Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, accessed July 2, 2021, https://mariocastelnuovotedesco.com/works_with_opus/quintette-pour-guitare-et-quatuor-a-cordes/. 
  2. Ibid.
  3. James Westby, “Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed July 2, 2021,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000005128.

Cut IDs

23342