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String Quartet No. 13, Op. 74
Ernst Toch · 1887–1964 · Austrian
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Level 8 · Professional — about LRSM / LTCL · RCM LRCM, with the parts evenly matched
Listen
- Ensemble
- String quartet
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 25 min
- Composed
- 1953
- Era
- 20th century
Notes
Four movements, about 25 minutes; a Coleman Chamber Music commission
About this work
- Composed
- 1953 (Nos.1-2, 4); 1954 (No.3)
- Dedicated to
- Commissioned by the Coleman Chamber Music Ensemble of Pasadena
- First performed
- 1954 by the New Music Quartet, Pasadena, California (USA)
- Molto tranquillo - Allegro moderato
- Allegro non troppo, molto leggiero e grazioso
- Slow, dolcissimo con espressione
- Allegro assai