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String Quartet No. 1

Quartetto per 2 Violini, Viola e Violoncello

Catalogue No.: YSC41

Status: Completed

Related Work: Adagio and Vivace

Opus: 8

Key: B Minor

Genre: Chamber Music

Creative Timeline: First Period

Dedication:

"To my mother."

Number of Movements: 4

Movement Titles:

Allegro moderato
Vivace
Adagio molto e mesto
Allegro molto e vivo

Instrumentation:

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

Written in: Rome

Date: May 1, 1952

Duration: 00:25:00

Sicilianos Archive Files

#	Cover/First Page	Archive Title	Description	Number of Pages	Digital Format	Linked File
1		Full Score	Scan of the full score.	70	PDF	View or Download

Intertextuality

#	Image	Title	Creator	Type	Remarks	Work Page
1		Byzantine Chant		Music	Third movement (Adagio molto e mesto)	View
2		Greek Folk Songs		Music	Third movement (Adagio molto e mesto)	View

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		Interview with Nikos A. Dontas	Interview	2000	Greek		View

Performances

#	Date	Venue	City	Country	Festival	Organiser	Artist(s)	Ensemble(s)	Work(s) Performed
1	June 30, 1952	Auditorium of Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia	Rome	Italy	N/A	Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia	Franco Claudio Ferrari (violin I), Luigi Biondi (violin II), Livia Simoncelli (viola), Luigi Chiarappa (cello)	Santa Cecilia Quartet	String Quartet No. 1
2	February 26, 1954	Parnassos Literary Society Hall	Athens	Greece	N/A	CIA - Central Intelligence Agency	Tatsis Apostolidis (violin I), Ersi Kagelari (violin II), Giannis Vatikiotis (viola), Emilios Sassarolis (cello)	Hellenic Quartet	String Quartet No. 1
3	March 17, 1954	Society for Macedonian Studies	Thessaloniki	Greece	N/A	"Art" Macedonian Artistic Company	Tatsis Apostolidis (violin I), Ersi Kagelari (violin II), Giannis Vatikiotis (viola), Emilios Sassarolis (cello)	Hellenic Quartet	String Quartet No. 1
4	June 12, 1954	(illegible)	Athens	Greece	N/A	N/A	Tatsis Apostolidis (violin I), Ersi Kagelari (violin II), Giannis Vatikiotis (viola), Emilios Sassarolis (cello)	Hellenic Quartet	String Quartet No. 1
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
7	April 24, 2010	Grand Arsenal	Chania	Greece	N/A	Benaki Museum	Georgios Demertzis (violin I), Dimitrios Chandrakis (violin II), Angeliki Yannaki (viola), Angelos Liakakis (cello)	New Hellenic Quartet	String Quartet No. 1 Op. 8, String Quartet No. 2 Op. 13, String Quartet No. 5 Op. 53
8	April 26, 2010	Piraeus 138	Athens	Greece	N/A	Benaki Museum	Georgios Demertzis (violin I), Dimitrios Chandrakis (violin II), Angeliki Yannaki (viola), Angelos Liakakis (cello)	New Hellenic Quartet	String Quartet No. 1 Op. 8, String Quartet No. 2 Op. 13, String Quartet No. 5 Op. 53

Performers

#	Name	Performer Type	Ensembles/Organisations	Profile
1	Angeliki Yannaki	Violist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
2	Angelos Liakakis	Cellist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
3	Apostolos Chandrakis	Cellist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
4	Chara Sira	Violist	New Hellenic Quartet, Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of Colours (Ορχήστρα των Χρωμάτων), ERT- National Symphony Orchestra, University of Macedonia	View
5	Dimitrios Chandrakis	Violinist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
6	Emilios Sassarolis	Cellist	Hellenic Quartet	View
7	Ersi Kagelari	Violinist	Hellenic Quartet	View
8	Franco Claudio Ferrari	Violinist	Santa Cecilia Quartet	View
9	Georgios Demertzis	Violinist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
10	Giannis Vatikiotis	Violist	Hellenic Quartet	View
11	Hellenic Quartet	String Quartet		View
12	Livia Simoncelli	Violist	Santa Cecilia Quartet	View
13	Luigi Biondi	Violinist	Santa Cecilia Quartet	View
14	Luigi Chiarappa	Cellist	Santa Cecilia Quartet	View
15	New Hellenic Quartet	String Quartet		View
16	Paris Anastasiadis	Violist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
17	Tatsis Apostolidis	Violinist, Conductor, Author	Hellenic Quartet Athens State Orchestra Athens Conservatoire	View

References

“Νέο Ελληνικό Κουαρτέτο: Αφιέρωμα στον Γιώργο Σισιλιάνο (1920-2005) - Benaki Museum Event.” Benaki Museum Official Website. Accessed June 16, 2024. https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_events&view=event&id=2407&lang=el.
Valia Christopoulou, Yorgos Sicilianos Catalogue of Works [Κατάλογος Έργων Γιώργου Σισιλιάνου] (Athens: Panas Music Papagrigoriou - Nakas, 2011), 35-37
Francis Guy, Yorgos Sicilianos - diapason a dialogue with Francis Guy [Γιωργος Σισιλιανος - διαπασων ενας διαλογος με τον Φρανσις Γκαϋ] (Cyprus: Cyprus Wine Museum, 2009), 30, 112, 114, 133, 139
Yorgos Sicilianos: Chamber Music I (Γιώργος Σισιλιάνος: Μουσική Δωματίου Ι), performed by the New Hellenic Quartet and Maria Asteriadou. Leskhi tou Diskou - Poikile Stoa, 2001, Compact Disc, 75:34. Catalogue No.: EA 7.77701.
Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis, Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist: Performing Selected Chamber Works and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 51 (Athens: Benaki Museum, 2020), 7, 265
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), 15, 130, 168, 170, 185, 193, 194, 242
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), 102, 115

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