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Suite No. 2 for Four Strings and Piano
Ruth Crawford Seeger · 1901–1953 · American
For 2 violins, viola, cello, piano
Level 8 · Professional — about LRSM / LTCL · RCM LRCM, with the parts evenly matched
Listen
- Ensemble
- Piano quintet
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 11 min
- Composed
- 1929
- Era
- 20th century · woman composer
Notes
Early dissonant-counterpoint suite for string quartet and piano; three movements
About this work
- Composed
- 1929
- First performed
- 1929/12/8
- Lento
- leggiero
- Allegro energico