Minguet Quartet

A century composer celebrates his 100th birthday: György Kurtág is among the most renowned contemporary composers and has significantly shaped the music of the 20th and 21st centuries with his unique, colorful sound language. The Minguet Quartet honors the exceptional artist with his Officium breve, a twelve-minute miniature that Kurtág composed as a 'mini-Requiem' for his deceased composer colleague Andreae Szervánsky. The composition is complemented by Mozart's String Quartet No. 15, which shares the key of D minor with works such as his Requiem or the overture to the opera Don Giovanni. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's String Quartet No. 6 in F minor can also be understood as a 'mini-Requiem': he dedicated the work to his sister Fanny, who had passed away shortly before at the age of only 41.

Program
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart // 1756–1791
String Quartet No. 15 in D minor KV 421 // 1783
György Kurtág // * 1926
Officium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervánszky op. 28 // 1988–89
Intermission
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy // 1809–1847
String Quartet No. 6 in F minor op. 80 // 1847

Performers
Minguet Quartet
Ulrich Isfort | Violin
Annette Reisinger | Violin
Aida-Carmen Soanea | Viola
Matthias Diener | Cello