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String Quartet in B-flat major, TH 110
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · 1840–1893 · Russian
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Also known as Quartet Movement in B-flat major · Adagio and Allegro in B-flat major
Level 5 · Advanced — about ABRSM 8 · RCM 9, for the violin 1 part
Listen
- Ensemble
- String quartet
- Hardest part
- Violin 1
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 13 min
- Composed
- 1865
- Era
- Late Romantic
Notes
Single movement, Adagio misterioso - Allegro con moto, from his conservatory years; published in 1940
About this work
- Composed
- 1865
- First performed
- 11 November 1865 — St. Petersburg, Conservatory, 6th quartet concert:; Konstantin Pushilov (violin I), Dmitry Panov (violin II),; Vasily Bessel (viola), Aleksandr Kuznetsov (cello)