Piano Quartet No. 1 (Enescu)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Piano Quartet No. 1 | |
|---|---|
| Chamber music by George Enescu | |
 Enescu in the 1910s | |
| Key | D major |
| Opus | 16 |
| Composed | 1909 |
| Dedication | Mme Ephrussi |
| Performed | 18 December 1909 Paris |
| Published | 1965 |
| Movements | 3 |
| Scoring |
|
The Piano Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 16, is a chamber music composition by the Romanian composer George Enescu, written in 1909 and first performed in Paris the same year.
Enescu composed his First Piano Quartet in 1909: the first movement in Sinaia, the remaining two movements in Paris. The work was completed on 10 December, just over a week prior to the concert in which it was premiered, in the series Soirées d'Art on 18 December 1909—a programme that also included the premiere of the already ten-year-old Octet for Strings. The score is dedicated to Mme Ephrussi, the wife of the Parisian banker Michel Ephrussi.[1][2][3]
There were only two further performances of the Quartet in the composer's lifetime: on 18 May 1910, and again in 1933, both times with the composer at the piano. It seems likely that Enescu had doubts about the work and might have wished to revise the score. This never happened, however, and the Quartet remained unpublished until 1965, a decade after the composer's death.[4][5]
