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String Quartet No. 2

Quartetto pour 2 Violons, Alto et Violoncello

Catalogue No.: YSC47

Status: Completed

Related Work: Tanagraea 17a, 17b, 17c

Opus: 13

Genre: Chamber Music

Creative Timeline: Second Period

Dedication:

"To the Hellenic Quartet, Apostolidis, Kangelari, Vatikiotis, Katsikakis"

Number of Movements: 4

Movement Titles:

Allegro violento
Allegretto semplice, con eleganza
Largo
Tempo rubato

Instrumentation:

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

Written in: Athens

Date: January 11, 1955

Duration: 00:19:35

Sicilianos Archive Files

#	Archive Title	Description	Number of Pages	Digital Format	Linked File
1	Draft Score	Scan of the draft score.	31	PDF	View or Download
2	Full Score	Scan of the full score.	35	PDF	View or Download
3	Final Draft Score	Scan of the final draft score.	29	PDF	View or Download
4	Draft Programme Notes - Analysis (Greek)	Scan of the draft programme notes - analysis written in Greek by the composer.	1	PDF	View or Download
5	Programme Notes - Analysis (Greek)	Scan of the programme notes - analysis typeset in Greek by the composer.	1	PDF	View or Download
6	Programme Notes - Analysis (English)	Scan of the programme notes - analysis typeset in English by the composer.	2	PDF	View or Download

Intertextuality

#	Image	Title	Creator	Type	Remarks	Work Page
1		Tanagra figurines		Ancient Greek Pottery	The Second Quartet’s second movement Allegretto semplice, con eleganza is the same material that forms the core of Tanagraea.	View

Discography

#	Album Cover	Title	Artist(s)	Work(s) by Sicilianos	Format	Label	Release Date	Album Page
1		Yorgo Sicilianos - Violin Sonata & Second Quartet	Aris Garoufalis, Ersi Kagelari, Fita Valenti, Giannis Vatikiotis, Hellenic Quartet, Tatsis Apostolidis	Sonata for Violin and Piano Op. 45, String Quartet No. 2 Op. 13	LP - Vinyl	Lyra	1982	View
2		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

#	Title	Type	Authorship Year	Language	Text Page
1	String Quartet No. 2, Op. 13 (1955)	Programme Notes	1955	Greek	View
2	My Music of the Last Fifteen Years (1952-1967)	Lecture	1967	Greek	View
3	Modern Music in Greece Today	Lecture	1991	Greek	View
4	Interview with Nikos A. Dontas	Interview	2000	Greek	View

Books

#	Cover	Title	Author(s)	Publisher	Publication Year	Type	Category	Language	Pages	Item Page
1		Performing Sicilianos: Selected Chamber Works and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra	Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis	University of London	2015	Musicology, Performance	Thesis	English	39-92	View
2		Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist	Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis	Benaki Museum	2020	Musicology, Performance	Monograph	English		View

Articles & Papers

#	Cover	Title	Author(s)	Affiliation	Publication Year	Language	Remarks	Item Page
1		Dialogue with Georgios Demertzis	Francis Guy	Musicologist, European University Cyprus	2005	Greek		View

Performances

#	Date	Venue	City	Country	Festival	Organiser	Artist(s)	Ensemble(s)	Work(s) Performed
1	March 21, 1955	Parnassos Literary Society Hall	Athens	Greece	N/A	CIA - Central Intelligence Agency	Tatsis Apostolidis (violin I), Ersi Kagelari (violin II), Giannis Vatikiotis (viola), Telis Katsikakis (cello)	Hellenic Quartet	String Quartet No. 2
2	August 6, 1955	Chamber Music Hall	Tanglewood-Lenox, Massachusetts	USA	Tanglewood - Composers' Forum	Berkshire Music Center	Hiroshi Hatoyama (violin I), Elizabeth Beebe (violin II), Jean Comstock (viola), Albert Petillo (cello)	N/A	String Quartet No. 2
3	December 29, 1979	Aliki Theatre	Athens	Greece	Ekphrasis '79	Ministry of Culture and Sciences	Adrian Sunshine (conductor)	London Chamber Players	String Quartet No. 2
4	April 4, 1990	Philippos Nakas Conservatoire Hall	Athens	Greece	N/A	Philippos Nakas Music Publishing - Youth Series Concerts (Οι νέοι για τους νέους)	Paul Costin (violin I), Mary Crosby (violin II), Sara Mackenzie (viola), Ilias Sakalak (cello)	N/A	String Quartet No. 2
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	October 7, 2001	Thessaloniki Concert Hall	Thessaloniki	Greece	N/A	Thessaloniki Concert Hall	Georgios Demertzis (violin I), Dimitrios Chandrakis (violin II), Chara Seira (viola), Apostolos Chandrakis (cello)	New Hellenic Quartet	String Quartet No. 2, Op. 13
7	April 5, 2009	Dimitri Mitropoulos Hall	Athens	Greece	N/A		Petri Aarnio (violin I), Taija Angervo (violin II), Ilari Angervo (viola), Joel Laakso (cello)	New Helsinki Quartet	String Quartet No. 2, Op 13
8	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
9	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
10	June 16, 2010	Council Chamber - Deptford Town Hall	London	UK	PureGold	Goldsmiths College, University of London	Anastasios Mavroudis (violin I), Markella Vandoros (violin II), Alexandros Koustas (viola), Alex Eichenberger (cello) [Op. 13], Anastasios Mavroudis(violin), Nikos Stavlas (piano) [Op. 45]	Tettix Quartet	String Quartet No. 2, Op. 13 - Violin Sonata, Op. 45
11	November 8, 2012	Council Chamber - Deptford Town Hall	London	UK	N/A	Goldsmiths College, University of London	Anastasios Mavroudis (violin I), Markella Vandoros (violin II), Shiry Rashkovsky (viola), Magdalena Pietraszewska (cello)[Op. 13, Op. 28], Anastasios Mavroudis(violin), Philip Howard (piano) [Op. 45]	Tettix Quartet	String Quartet No. 2, Op. 13 - String Quartet No. 4, Op. 28 - Violin Sonata, Op. 45
12	October 27, 2014	Council Chamber - Deptford Town Hall	London	UK	N/A	Goldsmiths College, University of London	Anastasios Mavroudis (violin I), Markella Vandoros (violin II), Shiry Rashkovsky (viola), Julia Morneweg (cello) [Op. 13, Op. 28] - Anastasios Mavroudis (violin), Anahit Chaushyan (piano) [Op. 45]	Tettix Quartet	String Quartet No. 2, Op. 13 - String Quartet No. 4, Op. 28 - Violin Sonata, Op. 45

Performers

#	Name	Performer Type	Ensembles/Organisations	Profile
1	Adrian Sunshine	Conductor	London Chamber Players	View
2	Albert Petillo	Cellist		View
3	Alex Eichenberger	Cellist	Tettix Quartet	View
4	Alexandros Koustas	Violist	Tettix Quartet	View
5	Anastasios Mavroudis	Violinist, Musicologist	Tettix Quartet	View
6	Angeliki Yannaki	Violist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
7	Angelos Liakakis	Cellist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
8	Apostolos Chandrakis	Cellist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
9	Chara Sira	Violist	New Hellenic Quartet, Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of Colours (Ορχήστρα των Χρωμάτων), ERT- National Symphony Orchestra, University of Macedonia	View
10	Dimitrios Chandrakis	Violinist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
11	Elizabeth Beebe	Violinist		View
12	Ersi Kagelari	Violinist	Hellenic Quartet	View
13	Fita Valenti	Cellist	Hellenic Quartet	View
14	Georgios Demertzis	Violinist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
15	Giannis Vatikiotis	Violist	Hellenic Quartet	View
16	Hellenic Quartet	String Quartet		View
17	Hiroshi Hatoyama	Violinist		View
18	Ilari Angervo	Violist	New Helsinki Quartet	View
19	Ilias Sakalak	Cellist	Camerata – Friends of Music Orchestra	View
20	Jean Comstock	Violist		View
21	Joel Laakso	Cellist	New Helsinki Quartet	View
22	Julia Morneweg	Cellist	Tettix Quartet	View
23	London Chamber Players	Chamber Orchestra		View
24	Magdalena Pietraszewska	Cellist	Tettix Quartet	View
25	Markella Vandoros	Violinist	Tettix Quartet	View
26	Mary Crosby	Violinist		View
27	New Hellenic Quartet	String Quartet		View
28	New Helsinki Quartet	String Quartet		View
29	Paris Anastasiadis	Violist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
30	Paul Costin	Violinist Osteopath		View
31	Petri Aarnio	Violinist	New Helsinki Quartet	View
32	Sara Mackenzie	Violist		View
33	Shiry Rashkovsky	Violist	Tettix Quartet Trio Klein Royal Holloway, University of London	View
34	Taija Angervo (Kilpiö)	Violinist	New Helsinki Quartet	View
35	Tatsis Apostolidis	Violinist, Conductor, Author	Hellenic Quartet Athens State Orchestra Athens Conservatoire	View
36	Telis Katsikakis	Cellist	Hellenic Quartet Athens State Orchestra	View
37	Tettix Quartet	String Quartet - Ensemble		View

Conferences & Events

#	Image	Name	Type	Location	Year	Event Page
1		Book Launch - Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist	Book Launch	Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri”	2020	View

Broadcasts

#	Image	Title	Format	Channel/Station	Date	Broadcast Page
1		Book Launch - Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist	Stream	YouTube	September 4, 2020	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), 42-44
Francis Guy, Yorgos Sicilianos - diapason a dialogue with Francis Guy [Γιωργος Σισιλιανος - διαπασων ενας διαλογος με τον Φρανσις Γκαϋ] (Cyprus: Cyprus Wine Museum, 2009), 24, 25, 101, 114, 116, 117
Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis, Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist: Performing Selected Chamber Works and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 51 (Athens: Benaki Museum, 2020), 39-92, 303-322
Yorgos Sicilianos, On Music [Για τη Μουσική], ed. Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou, foreword by Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou (Athens: Benaki Museum, Hellenic Music Centre, 2011), 283, 319, 345, 416
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), 130, 167, 169, 170, 171, 185, 195, 208
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), 49, 103, 116, 122

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