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String Quartet No. 1, Op. 6
Ernst Krenek · 1900–1991 · Austrian
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 29 min
- Composed
- 1921
- Era
- 20th century
Notes
One movement in eight sections, including a fugue; the closing Lento returns to the opening tempo
About this work
- Composed
- 1921 (January-February)
- Dedicated to
- Dem Lambinon-Quartett in Berlin gewidmet.
- First performed
- 1921-6-16; Nürnberg; Lambinon-Quartett of Berlin