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Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor, Op. 45
Gabriel Fauré · 1845–1924 · French
For violin, viola, cello, piano
Level 8 · Professional — about LRSM / LTCL · RCM LRCM, for the piano part
Listen
- Ensemble
- Piano quartet
- Hardest part
- Piano
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 33 min
- Composed
- 1886
- Era
- Late Romantic
Notes
Four movements; the later of Fauré's two piano quartets
About this work
- Composed
- 1886
- Dedicated to
- Hans von Bülow
- First performed
- 1887/01/22, Société nationale de musique; Guillaume Antoine Rémy (violin), Louis van Waefelghem (viola), Jules Delsart (cello), Fauré (piano)
- Allegro molto moderato
- Allegro molto
- Adagio non troppo
- Allegro molto