← Chamber music7String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Level 7 · Diploma — about DipABRSM / ATCL · RCM ARCT, with the parts evenly matched
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Listen
- Ensemble
- String quartet
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 35 min
- Composed
- 1944
- Era
- 20th century
Notes
Four movements; long violin 1 recitative, viola and cello solos in the variations
About this work
- Dedicated to
- Vissarion Shebalin
- First performed
- 1944/11/14 in Saint Petersburg, Leningrad Conservatory (Philharmonic Hall); Beethoven Quartet
- Overture: Moderato con moto
- Recitative and Romance: Adagio
- Valse: Allegro
- Theme with Variations: Adagio
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