← Chamber music6String Octet in F major, Op. 17
For 4 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos
Level 6 · Pre-diploma — about ARSM · RCM 10, for the violin 1 part
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Listen
- Ensemble
- String sextet or larger
- Hardest part
- Violin 1
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 33 min
- Composed
- 1848
- Era
- Early Romantic
Notes
Four violins, two violas, two cellos; first performed on 20 January 1849
About this work
- Composed
- 1848 (concluding in June)
- First performed
- 1849 January 20
- Allegro molto e con fuoco
- Andantino quasi allegretto
- Scherzo: Allegro moderato e tranquillo
- Finale: Allegro vivace
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