Premier Quatuor à Cordes (First String Quartet) - Sheet Music for String Quartet Jacques Leguerney

French composer Jacques Leguerney (1906-1997) has been recognized for his outstanding oeuvre of songs forvoice and piano, mostly composed upon poems of the French poets of the Pleiade. After his death, the Leguerney Estatedecided to allow the publication of his instrumental chamber music. These works, many of which were written in his earlyyears, are valuable contributions to the French chamber music repertoire, representing the 20 century from its early yearsthrough World War II. This sonata was composed during October and November of 1925. This editionis based upon one autograph manuscript of the full score, as well as a manuscript copy of the revised first movementwhich contains nuances marked probably by Leguerney. There is no indication that it was premiered, althoughthe ms copy of the first movement would seem to indicate that that movement at the least received a reading.We have added rehearsal numbers, and corrected a few notational mistakes in the manuscript.

Le compositeur français Jacques Leguerney (1906-1997) est surtout connu pour ses mélodies pour voix et piano, pourla plupart composées sur les poèmes de la Pléiade. Après la mort du compositeur, la succession Leguerneya décidé d´autoriser l´édition de sa musique de chambre. Ces oeuvres, dont beaucoup ont été composées pendantla jeunesse du compositeur, sont des illustrations du répertoire de la musique française de la première moitié du 20ème siècle.Cette Sonate a été composée en octobre-novembre 1925. L´édition est basée sur le manuscrit-autographe, ainsi que sur une mscopie du premier movement avec des annotations nuances,probablement ajoutés par Leguerney. On ne pense pas que l´oeuvre a reçu une premiere, pourtant selon la presence decette ms copie, probablement le premier movement a eu aumoins une lecture. Nous avons ajouté des numéros de répétition ainsi que corrigé quelques oublis de notation dans le manuscrit.