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Wolfgang Fortner was born in Leipzig in 1907.
In Bach’s fugues he admired "the high science of counterpoint" and "the resurrection of the old motet principle of imitation, out of a new structural thinking rendered necessary and possible by major–minor tonality and self-sufficient instrumental music". For Fortner, the linear counterpoint of 15th- and 16th-century a cappella music (which he found again in the works of Hindemith), Bach’s fugal art and the serial structural thinking of Anton Webern all belonged in a single historical line of development.
He composed four string quartets, in the years 1930, 1938, 1948 and 1975 respectively. I have been able to locate a performance of only the last.
Fourth string quartet (1975).
There are six movements:
I. Prelude: Presto
II. Variations: Theme: Grave
III. Variation 1
IV. Variation 2
V. Burlesque
VI. Madrigal
The work was performed by the Melos quartet:
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