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String Quintet in G major, FS 5
Carl Nielsen · 1865–1931 · Danish
For 2 violins, 2 violas, cello
Also known as String Quintet, CNW 59
Level 6 · Pre-diploma — about ARSM · RCM 10, with the parts evenly matched
Listen
- Ensemble
- String quintet
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 25 min
- Composed
- 1888–89
- Era
- 20th century
Notes
Two violas; four movements, an early work first published in 1937
About this work
- Composed
- 1888–89
- Dedicated to
- Thorvald Nielsen-Kvartetten (Thorvald Nielsen, Erling Bloch, Hans Kassow, Louis Jensen), 1931
- First performed
- 1889-2-13 in Copenhagen, Frimurerlogen, The Chamber Music Society
- Allegro pastorale
- Adagio
- Allegretto scherzando
- Finale. Allegro molto
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