Hayden Wayne & The Wallinger String Quartet - The Nuzerov Quartets #6, 7 & 8 (CD)

Release Date: 05/06/22

Composed on our family farm in Nuzerov, The Czech Republic, #6, 7 & 8 are part of cycle of ten quartets called, The Nuzerov String Quartets

6/14/00
It's a scary place I'm about to enter. I'm always nervous about the quality of what I will produce, if anything.
6/15/00
I've started something. I don't know what. I need more sleep.
6/16/00
Started a new intro, which I like. Now, I'm off to help my father-in-law put the cut hay into the hayloft.
Returning, I powered significantly through. It's interesting to me how I can keep my manic state of mind and put it into neutral when I run into a compositional 'wall'. I then do some menial work on the farm, like cutting a field of grass, and come back to my writing refreshed.
I'm now four minutes in.
6/17/00
Cleaned up what has become the exposition and started the antecedent. I need to clear my head.
And as I push on to finish the 1st movement, I've cleared at least a ton of rock and dirt off a wall in ruin to rise again.
Well, hey! I finished the 1st movement.
6/18/00
I can't say what makes it come out. I'm just grateful that I have the ability to hear it!
This countryside is so beautiful.
My God. I just wrote the 2nd movement.
6/20/00
Just finished two arduous days of writing out the first two movements. Hopefully, I'll still have some energy left to start the 3rd. I know it is reggae and will be in a straight up 4/4.
6/21/00
I did manage to start something last night/ This reggae should be fun and full of ebullience.
6/24/00
This 3rd movement is a very difficult birth, in contrast to the first two movement's ease of composition, it's going to be a bear to compose, let alone, write out.
6/26/00
It was a very difficult birth but I think it's finished. I need to sleep on it to see if it is.
6/28/00
Started the 4th movement, a real barnburner. The exposition is blistering!
6/29/00
Tweaked and finished the exposition and then started the antecedent. Also spent five hours painting a fence.
I think if for nothing else, Beethoven's sheer tenacity is the single most inspirational force for me. I may very well dedicate this quartet to his memory.
FINISHED!!!