8
Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 13, TrV 137
Richard Strauss · 1864–1949 · German
For violin, viola, cello, piano
Also known as Klavierquartett
Level 8 · Professional — about LRSM / LTCL · RCM LRCM, for the piano part
Listen
- Ensemble
- Piano quartet
- Hardest part
- Piano
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 40 min
- Composed
- 1884–85
- Era
- Late Romantic
Notes
Early work in the manner of Brahms; fast Scherzo in E-flat major
About this work
- Composed
- 1884-85
- Dedicated to
- Duke George II of Saxe-Meiningen
- First performed
- 8 December 1885 – Richard Strauss (piano), Karel Halíř (violin), Hagel (viola), Leopold Grützmacher (cello)
- Allegro
- Scherzo. Presto in E-flat major
- Andante in F minor
- Vivace