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String Quartet in C minor ("À ma Bretagne")
Jean Cras · 1879–1932 · French
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Also known as Quatuor à cordes "À ma Bretagne" · String Quartet No. 1
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 39 min
- Composed
- 1909
- Era
- 20th century
Notes
Four movements, about 40 minutes; subtitled for the composer's native Brittany
About this work
- Composed
- 1909
- Dedicated to
- à ma Bretagne
- First performed
- 1910/3/5, Paris, The Quatuor Willaume (Parisian Quartet): Gabriel Willaume, Morel, Macon, Louis R. Feuillard
- Lent () - Allegro ()
- Calme ()
- Vite et léger ()
- Lent () Allegro molto ()