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| composer = [[Claude Debussy]]
}}{{Infobox musical composition|name=String Quartet|composer=[[Claude Debussy]]|image=Claude Debussy by Marcel Baschet 1884.jpg|caption=Claude Debussy in 1884|key=[[G minor]]|catalogue=[[List of compositions by Claude Debussy by Lesure number|L]] 85|opus=[[Opus number|Op]]. 10|form=[[String quartet]]|composed=1892–1893|duration=About 25 minutes|movements=Four|premiere_date={{start date|1893|12|29}}|premiere_location=Société Nationale in [[Paris]]|premiere_performers=[[Ysaÿe Quartet (1886)|Ysaÿe Quartet]]}}[[Claude Debussy]] wrote his '''String Quartet''' in G minor, [[List of compositions by Claude Debussy by Lesure number|L]] 85, Op. 10 in 1893 when he was 31 years old. It is Debussy's only [[string quartet]].
| image = Claude Debussy by Marcel Baschet 1884.jpg
| caption = Claude Debussy in 1884
| key = [[G minor]]
| catalogue = [[List of compositions by Claude Debussy by Lesure number|L]] 91
| opus = 10
| form = [[String quartet]]
| composed = 1892–1893
| duration = About 25 minutes
| movements = Four
| premiere_date = {{start date|1893|12|29}}
| premiere_location = Société Nationale in [[Paris]]
| premiere_performers = [[Ysaÿe Quartet (1886)|Ysaÿe Quartet]]
}}
[[Claude Debussy]] completed his '''String Quartet''' in G minor, Op. 10 ([[List of compositions by Claude Debussy|L]].91), in 1893 when he was 31 years old. It is Debussy's only [[string quartet]].
 
==Background==
TheIn previous year1892, Debussy had just abandoned the opera ''[[Rodrigue et Chimène]]''. He planned to write two string quartets, only one of which materializedhe completed. The string quartet was meant to be dedicated to composer [[Ernest Chausson]], whosebut Chausson's personal reservations eventually diverted the composer's originalthis intentionsintention.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/composition/string-quartet-l-91-85-op-10-mc0002363450|title=String Quartet|last=Jameson|first=Michael|date=|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=2018-02-20}}</ref>
 
The quartet received its [[premiere]] on December 29, 1893 by the [[Ysaÿe Quartet (1886)|Ysaÿe Quartet]] at the Société Nationale in [[Paris]] to mixed reactions.
 
==Analysis==
The work isconsists inof four movements:
 
{{Ordered list|type=upper-roman
| type = upper-roman|Animé et très décidé (G minor – [[D minor]] – G minor)|Assez vif et bien rythmé ([[G major]] – [[E-flat major|E{{music|flat}} major]] – G major)|Andantino, doucement expressif ([[D-flat major|D{{music|flat}} major]] – [[C-sharp minor|C{{music|sharp}} minor]] – D{{music|flat}} major)|Très modéré'' – ''En animant peu à peu'' – ''Très mouvementé et avec passion (D{{music|flat}} major – G minor – [[C major]] – G major)
}}
 
Its sensuality and [[Impressionism in music|impressionistic]] tonal shifts are emblematic of its time and place while, withand its cyclic structure, it constitutes a final divorce from the rules of classical harmony andinto points thea waynew aheadstyle. After its premiere, composer [[Guy Ropartz]] described the quartet as "dominated by the influence of young Russia (interestingly, Debussy's patroness in the early 1880s had been [[Nadezhda von MeckRussia]], better known for her support of Tchaikovsky); there are poetic themes, rare sonorities, the first two movements being particularly remarkable."<ref name=":0" /> Debussy said that "Any sounds in any combination and in any succession are henceforth free to be used in a musical continuity."{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}
 
[[Maurice Ravel]], ananother [[Impressionism in music|Impressionistimpressionist]] composer associated with Debussy, also wrote a single [[String Quartet (Ravel)|string quartet]], a piece that is modeled onafter Debussy's.▼
Debussy wrote that "[a]ny sounds in any combination and in any succession are henceforth free to be used in a musical continuity."<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52845745|title=Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources|date=2004|publisher=University of Chicago Press|others=ed. Albright, Daniel|isbn=0226012670|location=Chicago|pages=191|oclc=52845745}}</ref> [[Pierre Boulez]] said that Debussy freed [[chamber music]] from "rigid structure, frozen rhetoric and rigid aesthetics."{{Citation needed|date=February 2018}}
 
▲[[Maurice Ravel]], an [[Impressionism in music|Impressionist]] composer associated with Debussy, also wrote a single [[String Quartet (Ravel)|string quartet]], a piece that is modeled on Debussy's.
 
==References==
'''Citations'''
{{Reflist}}
*
 
'''Bibliography'''
* Liner notes by Robert Orledge to Recording of the Quartet by Belcea Quartet
 
==External links==
* {{IMSLP2|work=String_Quartet_No.1_%28Debussy%2C_Claude%29|cname=String Quartet in G Minor}}
* [http://cdn1traffic.libsyn.com/gardnermuseum/debussy_op10.mp3 Performance of String Quartet] by the [[Borromeo String Quartet]] fromat the [[Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum]] in [[MP3]] format
* [http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/debussy-quartet-in-g-minor-op-10 'Debussy Quartet in G minor, Op. 10'], lecture by Professor [[Roger Parker]] followed by aand performance by the [[Badke Quartet,]] at [[Gresham College]], 29 January 2008 (available for download as either video or audio files).
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081209075010/http://inkpot.com/classical/debravsqti.html Notes] by Ong Yong Hui (archived via [[Internet Archive]])
* [httphttps://www.naxos.com/mainsiteMainSite/BlurbsReviews/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_codeitemcode=8.550249&catNumcatnum=550249&filetype=About%20this%20RecordingAboutThisRecording&language=English Notes] by Keith Anderson
 
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