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String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73
Dmitri Shostakovich · 1906–1975 · Russian
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Level 7 · Diploma — about DipABRSM / ATCL · RCM ARCT, with the parts evenly matched
Listen
- Ensemble
- String quartet
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 31 min
- Composed
- 1946
- Era
- 20th century
Notes
Five movements, once given programme titles that were withdrawn; sardonic scherzo, long final Moderato
About this work
- Composed
- 1946 (between January 26 and August 2)
- Dedicated to
- Beethoven Quartet
- First performed
- 1946/12/16 in Moscow, Moscow Conservatory (Small Hall); Beethoven Quartet
- Allegretto
- Moderato con moto
- Allegro non troppo
- Adagio
- Moderato