Qvartetto

(1859)

Composer Asger Hamerik

Instrumentation String quartet

Category 2-6 Instruments

Publication year 2020

Catalogue no. DCM.018

Duration 7 minutes

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Asger Hamerik (1843-1923) spent most of his composing career abroad – in Germany and France initially and later in America, where he was director of the conservatory and music society in Baltimore for many years. He composed symphonies, operas and chamber music, and he made an effort to promote Nordic composers in American musical life.

Qvartetto for strings is an early work, composed in 1859, the year he decided to abandon his original plan of studying theology and instead started composition studies with Niels W. Gade and J.P.E. Hartmann. The fact that the score exists in a fair copy, perhaps written by a professional copyist, could suggest that it was one of the works he presented during his early compositional activities.

Asger Hamerik was the brother of musicologist Angul Hammerich and the cousin of composer C.F.E. Horneman, as well as being related to Emma Hartmann, J.P.E. Hartmann's first wife.

The quartet was originally published by the Danish Centre for Music Publication of the Royal Library, now available as part of Edition·S’ DCM (Danish Classical Music) series.