String Quartet No. 1 ‘Verso l’interno’ (2007)

The String Quartet Nr.1, commissioned by the Bellosio String Quartet, consists of six movements. The structure of the piece is spiraling around the fourth movement. This melodical and fragile movement forms the center of the piece where the musical nucleus of the string quartet is presented. The bigger the distance is to the core of the piece, the more distant and transformed the material becomes. The fast movements; two, three and five are framing the slow fourth movement, and they are surrounded by a prologue and a epilogue.

The String Quartet was premiered by the Bellosio String Quartet at the Brahe Classica- festival in Finland on the 4:th of November 2007.

The String Quartet was composed with generous support from the Finnish Arts Council.

Sebastian Fagerlund