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String Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 1
George Whitefield Chadwick · 1854–1931 · American
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Level 5 · Advanced — about ABRSM 8 · RCM 9, for the violin 1 part
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- Ensemble
- String quartet
- Hardest part
- Violin 1
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 25 min
- Composed
- 1878
- Era
- Late Romantic
Notes
Early quartet of 1878; first published only in 2006
About this work
- Composed
- 1878
- Dedicated to
- Samuel S. Herrmann
- First performed
- 29 May 1878 Leipzig, Leipzig Conservatory (movements I, II); Arthur Beyer, Georg Schäfer, Edgar Coursen, Max Eisenberg
- Allegro con brio
- Adagio
- Menuetto. Poco vivace
- Finale. Allegro ma non troppo