Carl Nielsen - String Quartet No. 4 in F, Op. 44 (3/3)

String Quartet No. 4 in F, Op. 44 (1906)

III. Allegretto moderato e innocente
IV. Finale: Molto adagio - Allegro non tanto, ma molto scherzoso - Andante - Molto adagio - Tempo primo

A string quartet by Danish composer Carl Nielsen (1865-1931). Nielsen published four "official" string quartets as a series (Opp. 13, 5, 14 and 44), with this work listed fourth. However, he had composed two earlier quartets in his conservatory days. This quartet, Nielsen's last, dates from the same period as his comic opera Maskarade. It was first performed privately for the composer's friends in 1906 in Lolland Island. It was not received very well at its public premiere on account of its progressive style. Originally, the quartet had the title "Piacevolezza," but it was dropped when Nielsen revised the work in 1919.

Here, the work is performed by the Danish Quartet.

The painting in the background, titled "Pioneers of the Woods," is by the Hudson River School landscape painter Albert Bierstadt.

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