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String Quartet No. 4 in A minor, Op. 11
Sergei Taneyev · 1856–1915 · Russian
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Level 8 · Professional — about LRSM / LTCL · RCM LRCM, with the parts evenly matched
Listen
- Ensemble
- String quartet
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 37 min
- Composed
- 1898–99
- Era
- Late Romantic
Notes
Dedicated to the Bohemian Quartet; slow introductions in both outer movements
About this work
- Composed
- 1898–99
- Dedicated to
- 4 members of The Bohemian Quartet: * Karel Hoffmann (1st violin, 1872–1936) * Josef Suk (2nd violin, 1874–1935, violinist of the quartet until 1933) * Oskar Nedbal (viola, 1874–1930, violist of the quartet until 1906) * Hanuš Wihan (cello, 1855–1920, cellist of the quartet from 1894 to 1914)
- First performed
- 1900 December
- Adagio—Allegro
- Divertimento (Дивертисмент). Allegretto vivace e scherzando
- Adagio
- Finale (Финал). Adagio—Presto