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String Quartet No. 2 in F minor, Op. 10
Paul Hindemith · 1895–1963 · German
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 31 min
- Composed
- 1918
- Era
- 20th century
Notes
Three movements: fast, theme and variations, fast finale
About this work
- Composed
- 1918 in Alsace
- Dedicated to
- Herrn und Frau Rudolf Ronnefeldt (silver wedding anniversary)
- First performed
- 2 June 1919 in Frankfurt am Main, Dr. Hoch's Conservatorium; Rebner-Quartett (string quartet)
- Sehr lebhaft, straff im Rhythmus
- Thema mit Variationen. Gemächlich
- Finale. Sehr lebhaft