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String Quartet No. 4, Op. 37
Arnold Schoenberg · 1874–1951 · Austrian-American
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Level 10 · Extreme virtuoso — about Beyond the exam systems, with the parts evenly matched
Listen
- Ensemble
- String quartet
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 30 min
- Composed
- 1936
- Era
- 20th century
Notes
Twelve-tone; four movements, lyrical in spirit and rhythmically intricate
About this work
- Composed
- 1936
- Dedicated to
- To the ideal patron of chamber music Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge and to the ideal interpreters of it The Kolisch Quartet
- First performed
- 1937 January 8, Los Angeles, University of California at Los Angeles, Josiah Royce Hall; Kolisch Quartet
- Allegro molto, energico ()
- Comodo ()
- Largo ()
- Allegro () - Agitato ()