Cello, Viola, 2 Violins SKU: HU.HN1224 Composed by George Gershwin. Edited by N...(+)
Cello, Viola, 2 Violins
SKU: HU.HN1224
Composed by George
Gershwin. Edited by
Norbert Gertsch. String
Quartet, Strings,
Ensembles. Lullaby for
String Quartet. Set of
Parts. G. Henle #HN1224.
Published by G. Henle
(HU.HN1224).
12.2 x 9.3 x 0.1 inches.
In 1919-20 George
Gershwin was making a
name for himself with
Broadway songs and a
first show of his own in
New York. But he was
already attracted to the
world of classical music
- a world he would enter
with a bang in 1924 with
his "Rhapsody in blue".
He prepared himself for
this by taking an
intensive course in
composition, during which
he wrote this brief
"Lullaby" for string
quartet as an exercise,
probably in 1919. He
liked its catchy melody
so much that he later
used it again in his
one-act "jazz opera"
"Blue Monday Blues". "I
find the piece charming
and kind", wrote his
brother Ira in 1968 when
the quartet movement
appeared in print for the
first time. Thus the
world was given a second
lullaby by this American
composer - one worthy to
stand alongside his
famous "Summertime" from
"Porgy and Bess".
