String Quartet SKU: FG.042-08257-7
Composed by Usko Merilainen. Score. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.042-08257-7). ISBN 979-0-042-08257-7.
Usko Merilainen's first string quartet is a serial work completed in 1965. The ground occupied by the work is closer than ever to the second Viennese school proper. Merilainen makes a deliberate attempt to break notational taboos. In two places in the second movement - each of about 10 bars - he makes use of time-space notation in a way typical of his work, thereby discarding precisely defined durational relationships.
