8
String Quartet
Frederic Rzewski · 1938–2021 · American
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Level 8 · Professional — about LRSM / LTCL · RCM LRCM, with the parts evenly matched
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- Ensemble
- String quartet
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 38 min
- Composed
- 1955
- Era
- Contemporary
Notes
Written at 17; first played in 2016 by the Del Sol Quartet at the Library of Congress
About this work
- Composed
- 1955
- First performed
- April 29, 2016, Del Sol String Quartet. Coolidge Auditorium, The Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
- Andante – Allegro
- Allegretto ben marcato
- Adagio molto
- Mazurka. Vivace
- Recitativo. Lento
- Allegro molto
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2 violins, viola, cello
21 min
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