Classical Music | Music for Quartet

Recorded on 09/25/2019, uploaded on 03/18/2020

Musician's or Publisher's Notes

Alexander Glazunov, born in St. Petersburg, was gifted with an exceptional ear and began to study piano at the age of nine. He was composing by the age of 11. In 1879, he began composition studies with Rimsky-Korsakov and progressed "not from day to day but from hour to hour," said Rimsky-Korsakov. His first symphony and first string quartet were completed in 1881. Glazunov composed in all genres except opera, with the major portion of his music written before 1906. He wrote eight symphonies and eight quartets. The first seven were for strings, the last was composed in 1931 for saxophones. Some of the material from this work was later used in Glazunov's Saxophone Concerto, one of the most popular works for alto saxophone.         Notes by the Amherst Quartet

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