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String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat major
Luigi Cherubini · 1760–1842 · Italian
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Level 7 · Diploma — about DipABRSM / ATCL · RCM ARCT, with the parts evenly matched
Listen
- Ensemble
- String quartet
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 33 min
- Composed
- 1814
- Era
- Classical
Notes
Known for its fandango-like Scherzo; Altmann ranks it, with No. 3, among the masterworks
About this work
- Composed
- 1814 or earlier?
A step before · level 6
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A step after · level 8
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