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String Quartet No. 1 in A major, Op. 4
Alexander von Zemlinsky · 1871–1942 · Austrian
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 27 min
- Composed
- 1896
- Era
- Late Romantic
Notes
Four movements; an early quartet, the first of his four
About this work
- Composed
- 1896
- First performed
- 1896 December 2, Vienna
- Allegro con fuoco - Con fuoco e marcato - In tempo, doch sehr ruhig - Poco meno - A tempo
- Allegretto (dolcissimo) - (1/8 prestissimo) - Furioso - Tempo di Allegretto
- Breit und kräftig - Con energico - A tempo
- Vivace e con fuoco - Ruhiger - A tempo - Più mosso
A step before · level 6
String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat major, Op. 51, B. 92 ("Slavonic")
Antonín Dvořák
2 violins, viola, cello
32 min
6violin 1