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String Quartet No. 12 in D-flat major, Op. 133
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 27 min
- Composed
- 1968
- Era
- 20th century
Notes
Two movements built on twelve-tone themes; dedicated to Dmitri Tsyganov
About this work
- Composed
- 1968
- Dedicated to
- Dmitry Tsyganov
- First performed
- 1968/10/14 in Moscow, Moscow Conservatory (Small Hall); Beethoven Quartet
- Moderato () — Allegretto () — Moderato () — Allegretto () — Moderato ()
- Allegretto () — Adagio () — Moderato () — Adagio () — Moderato () — Allegretto ()