← Chamber music7String Sextet in E-flat major, H. 107
For 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos
Level 7 · Diploma — about DipABRSM / ATCL · RCM ARCT, with the parts evenly matched
MajorLyricalDramaticLesser-known
Listen
- Ensemble
- String sextet or larger
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 27 min
- Composed
- 1906–12
- Era
- 20th century
Notes
Three movements for two violins, two violas and two cellos; begun 1906, finished 1912
About this work
- Composed
- 1906-12
- First performed
- 1913 June 18 or 19, London, what is now Wigmore Hall
- Allegro moderato ( - Meno mosso e tranquillo ()
- Andante con moto () - Allegro giusto (stesso tempo, ) - Tempo I
- Allegro ben moderato () - A tempo animato ( - Tempo I - Con anima ()
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