8
String Quartet No. 2, Op. 23
Krzysztof Meyer · 1943– · Polish
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 14 min
- Composed
- 1969
- Era
- Contemporary
Notes
One movement of about 14 minutes; special mention at the UNESCO Rostrum of Composers, 1970
A step before · level 7
Naxos Quartet No. 5 ("Lighthouses of Orkney and Shetland")
Peter Maxwell Davies
2 violins, viola, cello
21 min
7balanced