8
String Quartet, Op. 1
György Kurtág · b. 1926 · Hungarian
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Also known as Quartetto per archi, Op. 1
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 14 min
- Composed
- 1959
- Era
- Contemporary
Notes
Six short, tightly packed movements; the longest, a final Adagio, takes about four 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