Cuarteto de cuerdas (String Quartet)
for string quartet

year of composition

2014

About the work

Cuarteto de cuerdas is a free-form fugue comprised of four interconnected movements. All four movements are linked through their roles in the larger fugal form and by the two themes that are explored throughout the work using different musical textures and characters. Movement one is a fuga con cierta licencia which introduces the work’s two musical themes. Movement two continues the development of the fugue’s thematic material in free-form episodes in the guise of a vals. In movement three the initial fugal theme and episodes from movement one re-enter and are transformed through developmental variation. The final movement is based on the second theme from movement one, which is developed in a quasi-stretto containing elements from the three previous movements. The work ends with a coda in which the initial musicial material is quietly and calmly resolved.

Audio

• Cuarteto de Cuerdas (performed by the Cuarteto de Cuerdas de Bellas Artes (México), 2018)