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String Quartet No. 4, H. 188
Frank Bridge · 1879–1941 · British
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 23 min
- Composed
- 1937
- Era
- 20th century
Notes
Three movements including a 'Quasi minuetto'; Bridge's last quartet
About this work
- Composed
- 1937
- Dedicated to
- Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
- First performed
- 1938/09/23
- Allegro energico – largamente
- Quasi minuetto
- Adagio ma non troppo – Allegro con brio.