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String Quartet No. 1 in A major, Op. 2, B. 8
Antonín Dvořák · 1841–1904 · Czech
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 33 min
- Composed
- 1862
- Era
- Late Romantic
Notes
Four movements; early work revised c. 1888, first published in 1948
About this work
- Composed
- 1862, revised ca.1888
- First performed
- 6 January 1888 in Prague
- Andante. Allegro
- Adagio affettuoso ed appassionato
- Allegro scherzando — Trio
- Allegro animato
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