5
String Quartet in D major, Op. 71 No. 2, Hob. III:70
Joseph Haydn · 1732–1809 · Austrian
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Level 5 · Advanced — about ABRSM 8 · RCM 9, for the violin 1 part
Listen
- Ensemble
- String quartet
- Hardest part
- Violin 1
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 18 min
- Composed
- 1793
- Era
- Classical
Notes
Written for public concerts in London; slow introduction
About this work
- Composed
- 1793
- Dedicated to
- Count Apponyi
- Adagio-Allegro
- Adagio cantabile
- Menuetto. Allegretto - Trio
- Finale. Allegretto
Also in Three String Quartets, Op. 71 ("Apponyi")
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