7
String Quartet No. 16, W 526
Heitor Villa-Lobos · 1887–1959 · Brazilian
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Level 7 · Diploma — about DipABRSM / ATCL · RCM ARCT, for the violin 1 part
Listen
- Ensemble
- String quartet
- Hardest part
- Violin 1
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 20 min
- Composed
- 1955
- Era
- 20th century
Notes
Written in 1955; first published in 1981
About this work
- Composed
- 1955
- Dedicated to
- Mindinha
- First performed
- 13 September 1958, Rio; Quarteto Rio de Janeiro
- Allegro non troppo () - Poco più mosso () - Tempo premiero - Più mosso
- Molto andante (quasi adagio) () - Poco più mosso () - a Tempo - a Tempo uno (♩=100)
- Vivace (scherzo) () - Più mosso () - allarg. - a Tempo uno - Allegro vivace () - attacca
- Molto allegro - Poco meno - Molto allegro (Tempo uno) - Piu mosso - Allarg.