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String Quartet No. 2 ("Vortex")

Gerard Pape · 1955– · American
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Also known as Vortex
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 11 min
Composed
1988–89
Era
Contemporary

Notes

Written for the Arditti Quartet (premiere Ann Arbor, 1989); perpetuum mobile, elegy, variations

About this work

Composed
1988, revised April 1989
Dedicated to
Arditti Quartet
First performed
1989
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