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String Quartet No. 1, Op. 8 ("Jupiter")
Alan Hovhaness · 1911–2000 · American
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Level 5 · Advanced — about ABRSM 8 · RCM 9, with the parts evenly matched
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- Ensemble
- String quartet
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 13 min
- Composed
- 1936
- Era
- 20th century
Notes
Prelude, fugue with four subjects, lament and a closing fugue
About this work
- Dedicated to
- Jean Sibelius
- Prelude: Andante mesto
- Fugue with 4 subjects: Allegro moderato
- Andante lamentando
- Fugue: Allegro gaio
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