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String Quartet No. 17, W 537
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
- 1957
- Era
- 20th century
Notes
The last of the 17 quartets (1957); first published in 1977
About this work
- Composed
- 1957
- Dedicated to
- Mindinha
- First performed
- 16 October 1959, Washington, DC, USA (Library of Congress); Budapest String Quartet
- Allegro non troppo - Meno mosso - A tempo Iº - Allegro piu mosso
- Lento - Piu mosso - a Tempo
- Scherzo. Allegro vivace - Piu mosso - a Tempo Iº - Molto vivace
- Allegro vivace (con fuoco) - Meno mosso - Quasi lento - A tempo Iº