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These pieces are similar in their level of intensity and stormy mood, a character which seems to be a partial product of Beethoven's use of C minor in compositions. Movements. As with all of the Op. 18 quartets, the String Quartet No. 4 follows the four-movement format. The second movement is a fugal scherzo rather than the more typical slow ...
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Overview. Prince Nikolai Galitzin commissioned the first three quartets (12, 13 and 15) and in a letter dated 9 November 1822, offered to pay Beethoven "what you think proper" for them. Beethoven replied on 25 January 1823 with his price of 50 ducats for each opus. [4] He composed the quartets in the sequence 12, 15, 13, 14, 16, writing 13 and ...
The Quartettsatz c-Moll (Quartet Movement in C minor) D 703 was composed by Franz Schubert in December 1820 as the first movement, Allegro assai, of a string quartet he was never to complete. Upon publication it was nonetheless listed as his "String Quartet No. 12". (Schubert did also compose the first 40 bars of the next movement, Andante .)
4. The String Quartet in E-flat major, JS 184, is a four- movement chamber piece for two violins, viola, and cello [3] written in June 1885 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. It is the first of Sibelius's four string quartets. The quartet appears in the same sketchbook as two other brief pieces for string quartet: first, the Molto moderato ...
Johannes Brahms ' String Quartet No. 1 in C minor and String Quartet No. 2 in A minor were completed in Tutzing, Bavaria, during the summer of 1873, and published together that autumn as Op. 51. They are dedicated to his friend Theodor Billroth. He only published one other string quartet, No. 3 in B-flat Major, in 1876.
The String Quintet in C minor, Op. 104, written by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1817, performed on 10 December 1818, and published in 1819, is an arrangement of the early C minor Piano Trio, Op. 1 No. 3. This work is scored for a string quintet with two violas. The work is referenced in Vikram Seth's 1999 novel An Equal Music. Structure
Presto (C major) Andante (A minor) Menuetto (C major, with Trio in F major) Allegro con spirito (C minor – C major) The autograph was widely scattered, and hence the first edition in the Alte Gesamt-Ausgabe only gives the first and third movements, as well as the second half of the finale in the critical report.
The fourth quartet was the last major chamber work by Oswald. In June 1927 he tried his hand with another string quartet (Op. 47), of which he sketched two versions, but none of them was finished. Like his other string quartets, the fourth remains unpublished. Structure. The quartet consists of three movements: I. Allegro moderato
B. String quartets by Milton Babbitt (5 P) String quartets by Béla Bartók (7 P) String quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven (1 C, 18 P) String quartets by Benjamin Britten (4 P)