31. Adagio

[A Major, 12/8]

Sources Notes
TIME OF ORIGIN

Between 1881 and June/July 1882.

PERFORMANCES

First performance in an arrangement for string quartet by Giorgio Magri (see NOTES): 14 December 1982, RAI Television, Rete III, Rubrica Regionale Piemonte.
Performers: Quartetto d’archi di Torino.

First performance in an arrangement for string quartet by Wolfgang Ludewig (see NOTES): 20 August 1999 at the Kulturcafé Merlin, Stuttgart.
Performers: Ariosa-Quartett.

First performance of the critical edition (31.E.1): 18 May 2001 at the Teatro del Giglio, Lucca. Performers: Quartetto Borciani.

INSTRUMENTATION

Conceived for string quartet.

LITERATURE

Hopkinson 1968, p. 65 (old shelf mark XII); Mostra 1974, p. 22, No. 14; Critica p. 20, No. 4; Schickling 1998b; Magri 1999, pp. 80-83 and 85; Schickling 2001, p. V.

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