String Trio [Streichtrio], Op. 10 (1928) -Józef Koffler

String Trio [Streichtrio], Op. 10 (1928)

String Trio [Streichtrio], Op. 10 (1928)

Chamber Works, Work with Opus Number

Manuscript:
Deposit at UE. ÖNB. Call Number: Ll UE 239.
University of Warsaw Library. Music Department (AKP BUW). Call number: Mus. XCIV manuscript 19

Publication: Józef Koffler. Trio for Violin, Viola and Violoncello. Op. 10. Score. Universal Edition A. G., Wien-Leipzig. Copyright 1929. No. 9770. 32 pages.

Premiere: Oxford, 23 July 1931

Movements: I. Allegro molto moderato; II. Andante, molto cantabile; III. Allegro molto vivace

I. Allegro molto moderato

II. Andante, molto cantabile

III. Allegro molto vivace

Performers: Members of the Novák Quartet (Libor Hlaváček, Dušan Pandula, Josef Podjukl, Jaroslav Chovanec)
Warsaw Autumn Festival 1964

Józef Koffler, first pages of the score of String Trio Op. 10 (Universal Edition, U.E. 9770, Vienna-Leipzig 1929). Copy from Karol Szymanowski's library. Contains a dedication by Józef Koffler (from the University of Warsaw Library collection)

Józef Koffler, Trio smyczkowe [String Trio] Op. 10, mvt. I, manuscript (Archive of Polish Composers, University of Warsaw Library)

Józef Koffler, Trio smyczkowe [String Trio] Op. 10, title page, manuscript (Archive of Polish Composers, University of Warsaw Library)

Józef Koffler, Trio smyczkowe [String Trio] Op. 10, mvt. II, manuscript (Archive of Polish Composers, University of Warsaw Library)

Józef Koffler, Trio smyczkowe [String Trio] Op. 10, mvt. II, manuscript (Archive of Polish Composers, University of Warsaw Library)

Józef Koffler, Trio smyczkowe [String Trio] Op. 10, mvt. II, manuscript (Archive of Polish Composers, University of Warsaw Library)

Józef Koffler, Trio smyczkowe [String Trio] Op. 10, mvt. III, manuscript (Archive of Polish Composers, University of Warsaw Library)

Józef Koffler, Trio smyczkowe [String Trio] Op. 10, mvt. III, manuscript (Archive of Polish Composers, University of Warsaw Library)

Józef Koffler, Trio smyczkowe [String Trio] Op. 10, mvt. III, manuscript (Archive of Polish Composers, University of Warsaw Library)

Józef Koffler, first pages of the score of String Trio Op. 10 (Universal Edition, U.E. 9770, Vienna-Leipzig 1929). Copy from Karol Szymanowski's library. Contains a dedication by Józef Koffler (from the University of Warsaw Library collection)

Józef Koffler, Trio smyczkowe [String Trio] Op. 10, mvt. I, manuscript (Archive of Polish Composers, University of Warsaw Library)

Józef Koffler, Trio smyczkowe [String Trio] Op. 10, title page, manuscript (Archive of Polish Composers, University of Warsaw Library)

Józef Koffler, Trio smyczkowe [String Trio] Op. 10, mvt. II, manuscript (Archive of Polish Composers, University of Warsaw Library)

Józef Koffler, Trio smyczkowe [String Trio] Op. 10, mvt. II, manuscript (Archive of Polish Composers, University of Warsaw Library)

Józef Koffler, Trio smyczkowe [String Trio] Op. 10, mvt. II, manuscript (Archive of Polish Composers, University of Warsaw Library)

Józef Koffler, Trio smyczkowe [String Trio] Op. 10, mvt. III, manuscript (Archive of Polish Composers, University of Warsaw Library)

Józef Koffler, Trio smyczkowe [String Trio] Op. 10, mvt. III, manuscript (Archive of Polish Composers, University of Warsaw Library)

Józef Koffler, Trio smyczkowe [String Trio] Op. 10, mvt. III, manuscript (Archive of Polish Composers, University of Warsaw Library)

Józef Koffler, first pages of the score of String Trio Op. 10 (Universal Edition, U.E. 9770, Vienna-Leipzig 1929). Copy from Karol Szymanowski's library. Contains a dedication by Józef Koffler (from the University of Warsaw Library collection)

Józef Koffler, Trio smyczkowe [String Trio] Op. 10, mvt. I, manuscript (Archive of Polish Composers, University of Warsaw Library)

Józef Koffler, Trio smyczkowe [String Trio] Op. 10, title page, manuscript (Archive of Polish Composers, University of Warsaw Library)

Józef Koffler, Trio smyczkowe [String Trio] Op. 10, mvt. II, manuscript (Archive of Polish Composers, University of Warsaw Library)

Józef Koffler, Trio smyczkowe [String Trio] Op. 10, mvt. II, manuscript (Archive of Polish Composers, University of Warsaw Library)

Józef Koffler, Trio smyczkowe [String Trio] Op. 10, mvt. II, manuscript (Archive of Polish Composers, University of Warsaw Library)

Józef Koffler, Trio smyczkowe [String Trio] Op. 10, mvt. III, manuscript (Archive of Polish Composers, University of Warsaw Library)

Józef Koffler, Trio smyczkowe [String Trio] Op. 10, mvt. III, manuscript (Archive of Polish Composers, University of Warsaw Library)

Józef Koffler, Trio smyczkowe [String Trio] Op. 10, mvt. III, manuscript (Archive of Polish Composers, University of Warsaw Library)

Dear Editor! My Trio (op. 10) employs twelve-tone technique. Therefore, all movements share the same theme, only with different rhythmic arrangements. Similarly, all subsequent themes and secondary ideas derive from the same tone row. The structure is thoroughly polyphonic. The form of the first movement: a sonata with two themes and a fugue instead of development; second movement: a three-subject fugue; third: rondo.

These words were addressed by Koffler to the editors of "Muzyka" journal (no. 3, p. 195) in 1930, explaining the essence of his composition.

This was the first composition to earn Koffler international recognition and fame.

Józef Koffler, Trio smyczkowe [String Trio] Op. 10, mvt. I, manuscript (Archive of Polish Composers, University of Warsaw Library)

It was published by Universal Edition in Vienna (1929) and presented at the Ninth ISCM Festival in Oxford (1931). In the first of the three movements, subject one (identical with the prime twelve-note row) is played in unison, subject two – by the cello. After the repeated exposition, one would habitually expect a ‘classical’ sonata-form development, but the composer introduces subject three and uses it as the foundation for a fugue made up of its own exposition and three episodes. Next, in place of the sonata-form recapitulation, we have a ‘development’ of the two main themes, ending with a coda. The second movement is a triple (three-subject) fugue, while the last takes the form of an ABACABA rondo in which the refrain (A) is slightly modified with each return.

Józef Koffler, thematic incipits of individual movements from the Trio smyczkowe [String Trio], 'Letter to the Editor,' Muzyka 1930, no. 3, p. 195

Unity is attained by using the same twelve-note row in each movement and a specific intervallic and rhythmic structure with a distinctive head motif.