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String Quartet No. 11 in E-flat major, Op. 67 No. 2
Nikolai Myaskovsky · 1881–1950 · Russian
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Level 6 · Pre-diploma — about ARSM · RCM 10, with the parts evenly matched
Listen
- Ensemble
- String quartet
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 26 min
- Composed
- 1945
- Era
- 20th century
Notes
Four movements, lyrical in character
About this work
- Composed
- 1945
- Dedicated to
- Aleksey Ikonnikov (biographer)
- First performed
- 1945
- Allegro tranquillo, E-flat major, 444 bars
- Andante con moto, C minor, 155 bars
- Allegretto pensieroso, no key signature but ends in E-flat minor, 228 bars
- Allegro non troppo, giocoso e festivo, E-flat major, 267 bars
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