← Chamber music7String Sextet in B-flat major
For 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos
Level 7 · Diploma — about DipABRSM / ATCL · RCM ARCT, for the violin 1 part
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Listen
- Ensemble
- String sextet or larger
- Hardest part
- Violin 1
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 28 min
- Composed
- 1893–96
- Era
- Late Romantic
Notes
Four movements; early work, first published only in the 2000s
About this work
- Composed
- 1893 (November 15)-96 (two versions- 1893, revised 1896), further revised 1898
- Dedicated to
- Archduchess Isabella of Austria
- First performed
- 1894 (first version); 1898 April 1 in Budapest (final version- acc. to Grimes.)
- Allegro ma tranquillo
- Scherzo: Allegro vivace
- Adagio quasi andante
- Finale: Animato
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