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String Quartet No. 4 in D major, Op. 83
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 25 min
- Composed
- 1949
- Era
- 20th century
Notes
Muted, high-lying opening for violin 1; Jewish-flavoured finale
About this work
- Composed
- 1949
- Dedicated to
- In memory of Pyotr Williams
- First performed
- 1953/12/03, Moscow Conservatoire (Small Hall), Beethoven String Quartet
- Allegretto ()
- Andantino ()
- Allegretto ()
- Allegretto ()