8
String Quartet No. 1
Sofia Gubaidulina · 1931–2025 · Russian (Tatar)
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Level 8 · Professional — about LRSM / LTCL · RCM LRCM, with the parts evenly matched
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- Ensemble
- String quartet
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 22 min
- Composed
- 1971
- Era
- Contemporary · woman composer
Notes
One continuous movement of about 22 minutes
A step before · level 7
Naxos Quartet No. 5 ("Lighthouses of Orkney and Shetland")
Peter Maxwell Davies
2 violins, viola, cello
21 min
7balanced