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String Quartet No. 5, Op. 60
Egon Wellesz · 1885–1974 · Austrian
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Level 7 · Diploma — about DipABRSM / ATCL · RCM ARCT, with the parts evenly matched
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- Ensemble
- String quartet
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 20 min
- Composed
- 1943
- Era
- 20th century
Notes
Three movements, the last an In memoriam
About this work
- Composed
- 1943
- First performed
- 1947/06/18, Barylli Quartet, at the Vienna Konzerthaus
- Maestoso - Allegro energico
- Allegretto comodo
- In memoriam. Lento
A step before · level 6
String Quartet No. 2 in A minor ("For Jean on Her Birthday")
Ralph Vaughan Williams
2 violins, viola, cello
21 min
6balanced