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String Quartet No. 3

Quatuor III pour 2 Violons, Alto et Violoncelle

Catalogue No.: YSC49

Status: Completed

Related Work: Synthesis

Opus: 15

Genre: Chamber Music

Creative Timeline: Second Period

Number of Movements: 4

Movement Titles:

Lento – Allegretto comodo
Scherzo. Allegro sottile e sempre scherzando
Andante espressivo
Allegro

Instrumentation:

String Quartet (Violin I, Violin II, Viola, and Cello)

Written in: Athens

Date: November 8, 1961

Duration: 00:20:31

Sicilianos Archive Files

#	Archive Title	Description	Number of Pages	Digital Format	Linked File
1	Sketch Material	Scan of the sketch material.	7	PDF	View or Download
2	Full Score	Scan of the full score.	26	PDF	View or Download
3	Draft Score	Scan of the draft score.	39	PDF	View or Download

Discography

#	Album Cover	Title	Artist(s)	Work(s) by Sicilianos	Format	Label	Release Date	Album Page
1		Yorgos Sicilianos: Chamber Music I	Apostolos Chandrakis, Chara Sira, Dimitrios Chandrakis, Georgios Demertzis, Maria Asteriadou, New Hellenic Quartet	Pantoum Op. 46, String Quartet No. 1 Op. 8, String Quartet No. 2 Op. 13, String Quartet No. 3 Op. 15	Compact Disc	Leskhi tou diskou - Poikile Stoa	2001	View

Texts

#	Cover	Title	Type	Authorship Year	Language	Remarks	Text Page
1		My Music of the Last Fifteen Years (1952-1967)	Lecture	1967	Greek		View
2		Interview with Nikos A. Dontas	Interview	2000	Greek		View

Performances

#	Date	Venue	City	Country	Festival	Organiser	Artist(s)	Ensemble(s)	Work(s) Performed
1	September 12, 1962	Conservatoire royal de Liège	Liège	Belgium	Concours international de quatuor à cordes de la ville de Liège - International String Quartet Competition of the city of Liège	Concours international de quatuor à cordes de la ville de Liège - International String Quartet Competition of the city of Liège	Henri Koch (violin I), Emmanuel Koch (violin II), Paul Lambert (viola), Joseph Wagener (cello)	Quatuor Municipal de Liège	String Quartet No. 3
2	September 15, 1962	Conservatoire royal de Liège	Liège	Belgium	Concours international de quatuor à cordes de la ville de Liège - International String Quartet Competition of the city of Liège	Concours international de quatuor à cordes de la ville de Liège - International String Quartet Competition of the city of Liège	Tadeusz Wroński (violin I), Nora Grumlíková (violin II), Gerard Ruymen (viola), Jean Reculard (cello)	N/A	String Quartet No. 3
3	May 9, 1963	Radničko sveučilište Moša Pijade (Workers' University Moša Pijade)	Zagreb	Croatia (Yugoslavia)	Muzički Biennale Zagreb (Music Biennale Zagreb)	Muzički Biennale Zagreb (Music Biennale Zagreb)	Josip Klima (violin I), Zlatko Balija (violin II), Dušan Stranić (viola), Fred Kiefer (cello)	Zagrebački kvartet (Zagreb Quartet)	String Quartet No. 3
4	December 28, 1967	Hellenic American Union	Athens	Greece	N/A	Hellenic Group of Contemporary Music	Dimitris Vraskos (violin I), Spyros Tsoutsos (violin II), Marina Panagopoulou (viola), Anastasios Kipreos (cello)	Hellenic Group of Contemporary Music	String Quartet No. 3
5	November 25, 2000	Dimitri Mitropoulos Hall	Athens	Greece	A Tribute to Composer Yorgo Sicilianos	Athens Concert Hall	Georgios Demertzis (violin I), Dimitrios Chandrakis (violin II), Paris Anastasiadis (viola), Apostolos Chandrakis (cello)	New Hellenic Quartet	String Quartet No. 1, Op. 8 - String Quartet No. 2, Op. 13 - String Quartet No. 3, Op. 15
6	March 13, 2007	Benaki Museum	Athens	Greece	Exhibition - Yorgos Sicilianos 1920-2005, the composer in the avant-garde of contemporary music	Benaki Museum	Georgios Demertzis (violin I), Dimitrios Chandrakis (violin II), Chara Sira (violist), Apostolos Chandrakis (cello)	New Hellenic Quartet	String Quartet No. 1 Op. 8, String Quartet No. 3 Op. 15, String Quartet No. 5 Op. 53

Performers

#	Name	Performer Type	Ensembles/Organisations	Profile
1	Anastasios Kipreos	Cellist	Hellenic Group of Contemporary Music	View
2	Apostolos Chandrakis	Cellist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
3	Chara Sira	Violist	New Hellenic Quartet, Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of Colours (Ορχήστρα των Χρωμάτων), ERT- National Symphony Orchestra, University of Macedonia	View
4	Dimitrios Chandrakis	Violinist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
5	Dimitris Vraskos	Violinist	Hellenic Group of Contemporary Music Contemporary Music Quartet	View
6	Dušan Stranić	Violist	Zagrebački kvartet (Zagreb Quartet)	View
7	Emmanuel Koch	Violinist	Quatuor Municipal de Liège	View
8	Fred Kiefer	Cellist	Zagrebački kvartet (Zagreb Quartet)	View
9	Georgios Demertzis	Violinist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
10	Gerard Ruymen	Violist		View
11	Hellenic Group of Contemporary Music	Ensemble		View
12	Henri Koch	Violinist	Quatuor Municipal de Liège	View
13	Jean Reculard	Cellist		View
14	Joseph Wagener	Cellist	Quatuor Municipal de Liège	View
15	Josip Klima	Violinist	Zagrebački kvartet (Zagreb Quartet)	View
16	Marina Panagopoulou	Violist	Hellenic Group of Contemporary Music	View
17	New Hellenic Quartet	String Quartet		View
18	Nora Grumlíková	Violinist		View
19	Paris Anastasiadis	Violist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
20	Paul Lambert	Violist	Quatuor Municipal de Liège	View
21	Quatuor Municipal de Liège	String Quartet	Concours international de quatuor à cordes de la ville de Liège	View
22	Spyros Tsoutsos	Violinist	Hellenic Group of Contemporary Music	View
23	Tadeusz Wroński	Violinist		View
24	Zagreb Quartet	String Quartet		View
25	Zlatko Balija	Violinist	Zagrebački kvartet (Zagreb Quartet)	View

References

Valia Christopoulou, Yorgos Sicilianos Catalogue of Works [Κατάλογος Έργων Γιώργου Σισιλιάνου] (Athens: Panas Music Papagrigoriou - Nakas, 2011), 47-50
Francis Guy, Yorgos Sicilianos - diapason a dialogue with Francis Guy [Γιωργος Σισιλιανος - διαπασων ενας διαλογος με τον Φρανσις Γκαϋ] (Cyprus: Cyprus Wine Museum, 2009), 116
Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis, Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist: Performing Selected Chamber Works and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 51 (Athens: Benaki Museum, 2020), 8, 267, 269, 270, 280
Yorgos Sicilianos, On Music [Για τη Μουσική], ed. Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou, foreword by Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou (Athens: Benaki Museum, Hellenic Music Centre, 2011), 283, 322, 323
Dimitris Agrafiotis, Theodore Antoniou, Tatsis Apostolidis, Valia Christopoulou, Giorgos Demertzis, Popi Eustratiadi, Byron Fidetzis, Gianni Ioannides, Apostolos Kostios, Giorgos Kouroupos, Katy Romanou, Yorgos Sicilianos, Michalis Stathopoulos, Nikos Synodinos, and Nikos B. Tsouchlos. Yorgos Sicilianos: In the Avant-Garde of Contemporary Music [Γιώργος Σισιλιανός - Ο συνθέτης στην πρωτοπορία της σύγχρονης μουσικής]. Edited by Valentini Tselika. (Athens: Benaki Museum, 2007), 18, 129, 130, 131, 132, 185, 198, 243
Kostas Chardas, Giorgos Demertzis, Charis Dimaras, Nikos Maliaras, Giorgos Sakallieros, Nikos B. Tsouchlos, Markos Tsetsos, and Panos Vlagopoulos. Yorgos Sicilianos 1920-2005 - Anniversary Tribute [Γιωργος Σισιλιανος 1920-2005 Επετειακο αφιερωμα]. Edited by Stephania Merakos and Valia Vraka. (Athens: Friends of Music Association, 2016), 48, 102, 103, 116

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