Guillaume Landré

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Guillaume Landré - not to be confused with his father Willem - was born in the Hague in 1905.

He adopted at first the principle of avoiding note repetition, and based many of his subsequent compositions on twelve-note rows (as for instance in his third symphony), without, however, adhering to a strict dodecaphonic technique.

He left us four grand symphonies:

no. 1, 1932
no. 2, 1942
no. 3, 1951
no. 4, 1955

Four string quartets:

no. 1, 1927
no. 2, 1943
no. 3, 1949
no. 4, 1965

and much more.

Of the quartets, only of the fourth is a performance at present available:

I don't know who the performers were.

There are three movements, given in two files:

Movements 1 and 2 are given in this file:


and movement 3 in this file: