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String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 90
Joachim Raff · 1822–1882 · Swiss-German
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Level 6 · Pre-diploma — about ARSM · RCM 10, for the violin 1 part
Listen
- Ensemble
- String quartet
- Hardest part
- Violin 1
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 40 min
- Composed
- 1857
- Era
- Early Romantic
Notes
Dedicated to the Müller Brothers Quartet; about 40 minutes
About this work
- Composed
- 1857
- Dedicated to
- Müller Quartet Mulller brothers (wikipedia (Eng, Ger) (Karl 1829–1907, Hugo 1832–1886, Bernhard, 1825–1895) and Wilhelm 1834–1897 members of the second Muller quartet of Meiningen and Rostock, 1863-73.); Karl, also active as a composer and arranger, was known as Karl Müller Berghaus
- First performed
- 29 March 1858 Wiesbaden, Vier Jahreszeiten: Alois Baldenecker quartet
- Rasch, jedoch ruhig
- Rasch (in A minor)
- Langsam, doch nicht schleppend (in F major)
- Rasch
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