His last two string quartets (and perhaps some contemporary works of his) while not serial are not lushly romantic either- how to categorize them? (note: basis of statement - LaSalle qt performances. Might think differently if exposed to other recordings.) Schissel 13:43, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Probably "post-romantic" is the most useful catch-all phrase for this composer's work. His second string quartet was actually a "recomposed" version of Schoenberg's opus 7. The third and fourth quartets are really neither serial nor Romantic, as you say. Antandrus 04:19, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- True - and he's certainly not the only composer this last century whose works, while shunning pan/nontonality and-or serialism, became at least odder. Or less lush. (In their own very different ways Ernest Bloch, Alexander Grechaninov, for two come to my mind.) Was he on record, intentional about a relation between his second quartet and Schoenberg's d minor? (I do see some very clear parallels now, which, for so to speak control-study, don't exist in another about-contemporary one-movement quartet of about equal length*.)
- * Suk's quartet in one movement op. 31. Schissel 21:47, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)