String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1518714 Composed by Jaques Offenbach. Arranged by Richard E Brown. Classical,Contest,Festival. 13 pages. Dacker Music #1092836. Published by Dacker Music (A0.1518714). A barcarolle was originally a traditional Venetian gondolier song, usually in gentle 6/8 meter (think “Santa Lucia”). The name has also long been used in classical music for other compositions in that style. Of a great many barcarolles in the literature, the best-known is probably the duet “Belle nuit, o nuit d’amour “ from Jacques Offenbach’s final opera “Les Contes d’Hoffman.” This is a reasonably faithful arrangement for string quartet of that famous melody.
