← Chamber music8String Octet, Op. 291
For 4 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos
Also known as Octuor à cordes · Quartets Nos. 14 and 15
Level 8 · Professional — about LRSM / LTCL · RCM LRCM, with the parts evenly matched
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Listen
- Ensemble
- String sextet or larger
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 18 min
- Composed
- 1948–49
- Era
- 20th century
Notes
Quartets Nos. 14 and 15 played together by eight players; three movements
About this work
- Composed
- 1948-49/01
- Dedicated to
- À Paul Collaer avec trente ans d'amitié
- Animé
- Modéré
- Vif
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