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String Quartet No. 1, W 099
Heitor Villa-Lobos · 1887–1959 · Brazilian
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Level 5 · Advanced — about ABRSM 8 · RCM 9, for the violin 1 part
Listen
- Ensemble
- String quartet
- Hardest part
- Violin 1
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 19 min
- Composed
- 1946
- Era
- 20th century
Notes
Revised in 1946 from the earlier Suíte graciosa
About this work
- Composed
- 1946 (possibly a revision of a 1915 work)
- Cantilena - Andante
- Brincadeira - Allegretto Scherzando
- Canto Lirico - Moderato
- Canconeta - Andantino quasi Allegretto
- Melancolia - Lento
- Saltando como um Saci - Allegro
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