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Guitar Quintet No. 7 in E minor, G. 451
Luigi Boccherini · 1743–1805 · Italian
For guitar, 2 violins, viola, cello
Level 5 · Advanced — about ABRSM 8 · RCM 9, for the guitar part
Listen
- Ensemble
- Other ensemble
- Hardest part
- Guitar
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 21 min
- Composed
- 1799
- Era
- Classical
Notes
Boccherini's own guitar version of earlier quintets, for the Marquis of Benavent
About this work
- Composed
- 1797
- Allegro commodo
- Adagio
- Minuetto con moto (trio)
- Allegretto
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