5
String Quartet in C major, Op. 30 No. 1
Johann Nepomuk Hummel · 1778–1837 · 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 26 min
- Composed
- 1804–08
- Era
- Classical
Notes
Dedicated to Prince Lobkowitz; the first movement has a slow Adagio e mesto introduction
About this work
- Composed
- 1804-08
- Dedicated to
- Le prince Joseph Lobkowitz (1772–1816)
- First performed
- 1809
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