Guise, Jean François de – String Quartet No. 5

Guise Jean François de
String Quartet No. 5 (2012)
Op. 36, No. 5

In this string quartet, Jean François de Guise strikes a somewhat calmer note than in his fourth.
One of his trademarks is that he immediately "disturbs" the entrance motif, which is also distributed to the other instruments, by immediately emitting another motif that also runs through the entire composition.
The subtitle “permutations” (Latin permutare, to swap) has its origin, because it describes the principle and the structure of the work perfectly.
Jean François de Guise weaves sound patterns into scraps of thought that, similar to a conversation, condition and fuel one another.
The composer lets his original idea appear sonorous and thwarted by the other instruments. He quasi wanders from the composed thought and remembers the starting point again.
With this, Jean François de Guise creates a kind of silence that you might find in a busy city park, a restless calm.

Ule Anders

Jean Francois de Guise was born on May 15th, 1970. He received his first musical lessons in 1976 in the subject of recorder. From 1977 the trumpet became his main instrument, to which the subjects music theory, composition, piano and organ as well as the subjects conducting and singing were added over the next few years. From 1991 to 1996 he studied in Paris, among other places.

His teachers included, for example, Jean Langlais, Sergiu Celebidache and Rolf Reuter. De Guise was particularly influenced in the composition by the American composer Elliott Carter.
For many years he worked as a solo trumpeter and conductor with well-known orchestras before he devoted himself almost exclusively to composition and teaching.
The compositional oeuvre de Guise ‘comprises around 450 works, including 4 operas and 32 orchestral concerts.

2Vl, Va, Vc
Score and 4 parts / 39 pages