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String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 20
Karl Weigl · 1881–1949 · 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 44 min
- Composed
- 1905–06
- Era
- 20th century
Notes
Four movements, over 40 minutes; the longest of his eight quartets
About this work
- Composed
- 1905-6 (completed March 1905, revised 1906)
- Dedicated to
- Prof. Dr. Karl Straube
- First performed
- 1925 April 1, Vienna, Kolbe Quartet or earlier
- Stürmisch bewegt [Allegro con fuoco]
- Sehr langsam [Adagio] - Sehr breit und ausdrucksvoll
- Wild und bacchantisch -
- Langsam, feierlich [Andante] - Sehr langsam [Adagio]