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String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 35
Vincent d' Indy · 1851–1931 · French
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Also known as Quatuor à cordes no 1
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 39 min
- Composed
- 1890
- Era
- Late Romantic
Notes
Cyclic quartet written for Ysaÿe and his quartet; dense counterpoint and shifting metres
About this work
- Composed
- 1890
- Dedicated to
- à Eugène Ysaÿe et au quatuor Ysaÿe, Crickboom, Van Hout, Joseph Jacob
- First performed
- 24 February 1891
- Lent et soutenu () in D major - Un peu plus vite ()... Modérément animé () in D minor
- Lent et calme () in B-flat major
- Assez modéré dans le sentiment d'un chant populaire ( in D minor) - suivez sans interrompre
- Assez lent et librement déclamé () - 1er mouvement (Assez lent) - Un peu plus vite () - ... - Vif et joyeusement animé ()