← Chamber music7String Sextet, H. 224
For 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos
Level 7 · Diploma — about DipABRSM / ATCL · RCM ARCT, with the parts evenly matched
DramaticLyricalLesser-known
Listen
- Ensemble
- String sextet or larger
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 16 min
- Composed
- 1932
- Era
- 20th century
Notes
Three movements for two violins, two violas and two cellos (1932)
About this work
- Composed
- 1932 May
- Dedicated to
- To Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
- First performed
- 1933 April 25, Washington DC; W. Kroll, N.(icolai?) Bere(n?)zowsky, L. Barzin, O. Saltikov, M. Prinz, O. Giskin
- Lento - Allegro poco moderato
- Andantino – Allegretto scherzando – Tempo 1
- Allegretto poco moderato
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