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String Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major ("Highgate")
Charles Wood · 1866–1926 · Irish
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 28 min
- Composed
- 1893
- Era
- Late Romantic
Notes
Four movements; first published by OUP in 1929, after his death
About this work
- Composed
- 1893
- Allegro con moto
- Molto moderato in A-flat major
- Adagio ma non troppo in C minor - Più agitato - Tranquillo - A tempo
- Molto animato - Più tranquillo - (A tempo)
A step before · level 4
String Quartet in C major, Op. 33 No. 3, Hob. III:39 ("The Bird")
Joseph Haydn
2 violins, viola, cello
19 min
4violin 1
A step after · level 6
String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat major, Op. 51, B. 92 ("Slavonic")
Antonín Dvořák
2 violins, viola, cello
32 min
6violin 1