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String Quartet No. 2, Op. 99, SO 608
Leo Ornstein · 1893–2002 · American
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Level 9 · Virtuoso — about FRSM / FTCL, with the parts evenly matched
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- Ensemble
- String quartet
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 33 min
- Composed
- 1930
- Era
- 20th century
Notes
Single large work of about half an hour; dense, dissonant and rhythmically complex
About this work
- Composed
- 1930 or earlier (probably 1928 or 1929)
- First performed
- 1930 April 6 or earlier
- Moderato ma animato
- Lento malincolio
- Presto con fuoco