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String Quartet No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 19
Vissarion Shebalin · 1902–1963 · Russian
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Level 6 · Pre-diploma — about ARSM · RCM 10, for the violin 1 part
Listen
- Ensemble
- String quartet
- Hardest part
- Violin 1
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 30 min
- Composed
- 1934
- Era
- 20th century
Notes
Published by Muzgiz in 1936
About this work
- Composed
- 19341935
- Dedicated to
- Dmitry Tsyganov (1903–1992), Vasily Shirinsky,; Vadim Borisovsky, Sergey Shirinsky (1903–1974)
- First performed
- 19 March 1935 in Moscow, Small Hall of Moscow Conservatory; Beethoven String Quartet; Dmitry Tsyganov, Vasily Shirinsky (violins), Vadim Borisovsky (viola), Sergey Shirinsky (cello)
- Largo - Allegro
- Andantino - Vivo
- Andante e cantabile
- Allegro risoluto