Ingvar Lidholm - 3 Elegies and Epilogue for String Quartet (1940/1986)

Ingvar Natanael Lidholm (24 February 1921 – 17 October 2017) was a Swedish composer, violinist, violist, educator, and etc.

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Three Elegies and Epilogue for String Quartet

1. Adagio (1940) (0:00)
2. Vivace (1940) (4:33)
3. Larghetto (1940) (10:13)
4. Epilogue (1982) (17:37)

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Live recording

The Three Elegies and Epilogue for string quartet were composed over a period which spans a large part of Ingvar Lidholm's active years as a composer. The first three movements - Adagio, Vivace and Larghetto - were composed during the summer of 1940 and first performed that autumn in Södertälje (Sweden) under the title of Elegiac Suite. These movements were written under the influence of Sibelius' Fourth Symphony and his string quartet Voces Intimae, and were perhaps also influenced by Willhelm Stenhammar. Lidholm presented the elegies as a sample of his work when he approached Hilding Rosenberg with a view to taking lessons from him. Many years later, as a tribute to Hilding Rosenberg on his 90th birthday in 1982, Lidholm, Sven-Erik Bäck and Daniel Börtz completed an unfinished quartet by Rosenberg, to which Lidholm then added an Epilogue "a Hilding Rosenberg con reverenza", which by the way of conclusion makes use of bird music taken from Rosenberg's fourth string quartet. In 1986 the Epilogue was added to the Three Elegies, because Lidholm "wanted to see if the tones from my youth were of any revelance to tcomposer who wrote the Epilogue".