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The Quatuor Franz Joseph invites listeners to discover the three string quartets, opus 1, by Hyacinthe Jadin, a French composer who is little known today. Born in 1776 in Versailles to a musical family, he was on the brink of a promising career when he died of tuberculosis, in September of 1800 at the age of 24. For his quartets, Jadin used the four-movement structure he had inherited from Haydn. Stylistically, they anticipate the great contrapuntal developments of the 19th century. Tinged with a pre-Romantic aesthetic, they are a French version of the Sturm und Drang movement which heralded the world of Schubert. The Quatuor Franz Joseph was created in 2002 by four enthusiastic and leading early-music string players from Montrea. These musicians seek to quench their thirst for the quartet repertoire of the Enlightenment using period instruments, while nourishing an interest for parallel repertoires.
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Ier Quatuor, en si bémol majeur | in B flat major
1 Largo — Allegro non troppo
2 Adagio
3 Menuet — Trio
4 Finale. Allegro
IIe Quatuor, en la majeur | in A major Jadin, Hyacinthe (1776-1800)
5 Allegro
6 Menuet — Trio
7 Pastoral. Andante
8 Finale. Presto
IIIe Quatuor, en fa mineur | in F minor Jadin, Hyacinthe (1776-1800)
9 Allegro moderato
10 Menuet — [Trio] Majeur
11 Adagio
12 Polonaise
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