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Symphoniette
for Strings

  • Duration: 8'
  • Instrumentation: Strings
  • Year: 1929
  • Type: parts, score

This piece consists of two movements - a solemn Adagio (Adagio - Molto meno mosso - a pace) exploring a highly chromatic, atonal soundscape and a double fugue movement marked Molto allegro (vivace). Elements of polyphony are also not lacking in the first part - even the very dark in mood in the introduction gives an example. This suggest the irrefutable comparison to Bartok's music, in particular the early quartets, from which the young composer was able to draw inspiration. There is an astonishing wealth of content in this piece which lasts less than eight minutes. The combination of polyphony and homophony, refined chromaticism with episodes of thick sonoristic texture, multiple shades of expression - as a student work ''Symphoniette'' is an extraordinarily mature piece. The spirit of neoromanticism, consistetly denied in the consciousness of the modernist rebels circulates around this composition.
[Małgorzata Gąsiorowska, Program Notes XIII Lutosławski Forum]

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