Quatuor diotima biography of michael
Quatuor Diotima provides listeners with a personal interpretation of these masterpieces through an autobiographical exploration of these great composers.
Michael Pelzel is a composer and organist.!
Portrait: Quatuor Diotima
A musical and temporal dialogue: from the great classics to contemporary masterpieces
After playing a piece by Alain Bancquart in Darmstadt, Germany, four laureates of the Paris Conservatory continued the adventure of their string quartet, creating Quatuor Diotima in 1996.
The name of this ensemble reveals its musical ambition: “Making previous pieces meet those of the composers with whom we are working with,” as the cellist Pierre Morlet so aptly said. Indeed, the name Diotima is not a random choice and reminds us of the heroine in Hyperion, by German romantic poet and philosopher Hölderlin .
It also evokes the work Fragmente-Stille, and Diotima by Luigi Nono, an Italian contemporary music composer. This choice to work with a broad musical palette—ranging from avant-garde romanticism to contemporary works by composers including Miroslav Srnka, Gérard Pesson, Toshio Hosokawa, Alberto Posadas, Mauro Lanza, Tristan Murail,
