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String Quartet No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 92
Dmitri Shostakovich · 1906–1975 · Russian
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Level 8 · Professional — about LRSM / LTCL · RCM LRCM, with the parts evenly matched
Listen
- Ensemble
- String quartet
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 31 min
- Composed
- 1952
- Era
- 20th century
Notes
Three movements played without a break; dedicated to the Beethoven Quartet
About this work
- Composed
- 1952
- Dedicated to
- Beethoven Quartet (Dmitry Tsyganov, Vasily Shirinsky, Vadim Borisovsky, Sergey Shirinsky)
- First performed
- 1953/11/13
- Allegro non troppo
- Andante – Andantino – Andante – Andantino – Andante
- Moderato – Allegretto – Andante