Quartetto chromatico

Joseph Marx · 1882–1964 · Austrian

For 2 violins, viola, cello

Level 8 · Professional — about LRSM / LTCL · RCM LRCM, with the parts evenly matched

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Ensemble: String quartet
Hardest part: Balanced
Form: Full work
Length: About 28 min
Composed: 1936 (rev. 1948)
Era: Late Romantic

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Revision of an A major quartet of 1936; the longest and most chromatic of the three

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