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String Quartet No. 4

Catalogue No.: YSC68

Status: Completed

Opus: 28

Genre: Chamber Music

Creative Timeline: Second Period

Number of Movements: 2

Movement Titles:

Allegro moderato
Largamente – Allegretto – Io Tempo (Largamente)

Instrumentation:

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

Written in: Athens

Date: November 12, 1967

Duration: 00:18:00

Sicilianos Archive Files

#	Archive Title	Description	Number of Pages	Digital Format	Linked File
1	Sketch Material	Scan of the sketch material.	54	PDF	View or Download
2	Draft Score	Scan of the draft score.	23	PDF	View or Download
3	Full Score	Scan of the full score.	16	PDF	View or Download

Intertextuality

#	Image	Title	Creator	Type	Remarks	Work Page
1		Fibonacci Sequence	Fibonacci	Mathematical series		View

Discography

#	Album Cover	Title	Artist(s)	Work(s) by Sicilianos	Format	Label	Release Date	Album Page
1		Yorgos Sicilianos: Chamber Music II	Apostolos Chandrakis, Chara Sira, Dimitrios Chandrakis, Georgios Demertzis, Maria Asteriadou, New Hellenic Quartet	Quintet for Piano and Strings Op. 61, Sonata for Violin and Piano Op. 45, String Quartet No. 4 Op. 28, String Quartet No. 5 Op. 53	Compact Disc	Leskhi tou diskou - Poikile Stoa	2006	View

Texts

#	Cover	Title	Type	Authorship Year	Language	Remarks	Text Page
1		Interview with Andreas Deligiannis	Interview	1968	Greek		View
2		Interview with Nikos A. Dontas	Interview	2000	Greek		View

Books

#	Title	Author(s)	Publisher	Publication Year	Type	Category	Language	Item Page
1	Yorgos Sicilianos: life and work	Valia (Stavroula) Christopoulou	University of Athens	2009	Musicology	Thesis	Greek	View
2	Performing Sicilianos: Selected Chamber Works and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra	Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis	University of London	2015	Musicology, Performance	Thesis	English	View
3	Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist	Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis	Benaki Museum	2020	Musicology, Performance	Monograph	English	View

Performances

#	Date	Venue	City	Country	Festival	Organiser	Artist(s)	Ensemble(s)	Work(s) Performed
1	April 25, 1968	Parnassos Literary Society Hall	Athens	Greece	N/A	Goethe-Institut - Contemporary Music Workshop	Klaus Assmann (violin I), Wilfried Wenzel (violin II), Karl Heinz Schmidt (viola), Otto Engel (cello)	Assmann Quartet	String Quartet No. 4, Op. 28
2	September 25, 1971	Kotopouli -Rex Theatre	Athens	Greece	Hellenic Week of Contemporary Music	Hellenic Association of Contemporary Music (Ελληνικός Σύνδεσμος Σύχγρονης Μουσικής)	Spyros Tombras (violinI), Dimitris Vraskos (violin II), Georgios Poubouridis (viola), Sotiris Tachiatis (cello)	Contemporary Music Quartet	String Quartet No. 4, Op. 28
3	April 17, 1975	House of Fine Arts and Letters	Athens	Greece	N/A	Greek Composers' Union	Spyros Tombras (violin I), Dimitris Vraskos (violin II), Georgios Poubouridis (viola), Sotiris Tachiatis (cello)	Contemporary Music Quartet	String Quartet No. 4, Op. 28
4	December 14, 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) [Op. 28 & Op. 53] - Georgios Demertzis (violin), Maria Asteriadou (piano) [Op. 45] - Maria Asteriadou (piano), Georgios Demertzis (violin), Apostolos Chandrakis (cello) [Op. 46]	New Hellenic Quartet	String Quartet No. 4, Op. 28 - Violin Sonata, Op. 45 - Pantoum, Op. 46 - String Quartet No. 5, Op. 53
5	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
6	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	Anastasios Mavroudis	Violinist, Musicologist	Tettix Quartet	View
2	Apostolos Chandrakis	Cellist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
3	Assmann Quartet	String 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	Contemporary Music Quartet	String Quartet		View
6	Dimitrios Chandrakis	Violinist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
7	Dimitris Vraskos	Violinist	Hellenic Group of Contemporary Music Contemporary Music Quartet	View
8	Georgios Demertzis	Violinist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
9	Georgios Poubouridis	Violist	Contemporary Music Quartet	View
10	Julia Morneweg	Cellist	Tettix Quartet	View
11	Karl Heinz Schmidt	Violist	Assmann Quartet	View
12	Klaus Assmann	Violinist	Assmann Quartet	View
13	Magdalena Pietraszewska	Cellist	Tettix Quartet	View
14	Markella Vandoros	Violinist	Tettix Quartet	View
15	New Hellenic Quartet	String Quartet		View
16	Otto Engel	Cellist	Assmann Quartet	View
17	Paris Anastasiadis	Violist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
18	Shiry Rashkovsky	Violist	Tettix Quartet Trio Klein Royal Holloway, University of London	View
19	Sotiris Tachiatis	Cellist	Contemporary Music Quartet	View
20	Spyros Tombras	Violinist	Athens String Ensemble Contemporary Music Quartet	View
21	Tettix Quartet	String Quartet - Ensemble		View
22	Wilfried Wenzel	Violinist	Assmann Quartet	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

Valia Christopoulou, Yorgos Sicilianos Catalogue of Works [Κατάλογος Έργων Γιώργου Σισιλιάνου] (Athens: Panas Music Papagrigoriou - Nakas, 2011), 79-81
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, 35, 36, 39, 40, 51, 66, 106, 109, 110
Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis, Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist: Performing Selected Chamber Works and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 51 (Athens: Benaki Museum, 2020), 93-154, 323-357
Yorgos Sicilianos, On Music [Για τη Μουσική], ed. Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou, foreword by Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou (Athens: Benaki Museum, Hellenic Music Centre, 2011), 147, 284
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), 20, 133, 164, 185
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), 100, 102, 103, 105, 117

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