31. Young Musicians Series

31. Young Musicians Series
Magnolia Quartet is the third of the student Quartets taking part in the Festival masterclasses. The musicians are Lucia Murphy, Ellen O’Connell, Jeanette Bogado from Paraguay and Anna Varga from Hungary all studying in Ireland. Haydn’s Op.76 is the last complete set that he wrote, a set that stands at the apex of his collection of almost 70 quartets. Unlike his earlier intimate sets, Op.76 was composed for a concert hall rather than a private house or palace. Smetana’s autobiographical ‘From My Life’ was the outcry of a desperate composer, whose life was disintegrating due to deafness and approaching madness and who blames Fate for his suffering.