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String Quartet No. 3 ("Cetera desunt")
Lera Auerbach · b. 1973 · Russian-American
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Also known as Sonnet for String Quartet No. 3
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 21 min
- Composed
- 2006
- Era
- Contemporary · woman composer
Notes
Eight short movements with Latin titles; the quartet is also called a sonnet
A step before · level 7
Naxos Quartet No. 5 ("Lighthouses of Orkney and Shetland")
Peter Maxwell Davies
2 violins, viola, cello
21 min
7balanced