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String Quartet No. 4 in F major, Op. 44, FS 36
Carl Nielsen · 1865–1931 · Danish
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Level 7 · Diploma — about DipABRSM / ATCL · RCM ARCT, with the parts evenly matched
Listen
- Ensemble
- String quartet
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 26 min
- Composed
- 1906
- Era
- 20th century
Notes
Four movements; the last of his four numbered quartets
About this work
- Composed
- 1906 (9 February to 2 July) / revised 1919
- Dedicated to
- Dem Kopenhagener Strichquartett Gunna Breuning, Gerhard Rafin, Ella Faber und Paulus Bache freundschaftlich gewidmet
- First performed
- 1907/11/30 in Copenhagen, small hall of the Odd Fellow Palæ (original version)
- Allegro non tanto e comodo
- Adagio con sentiment[i]o religioso
- Allegretto moderato ed innocente
- Molto adagio - Allegro non tanto, ma molto scherzoso