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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 .)
In the liner notes of the Borodin String Quartet's recording of Dmitri Shostakovich's Eighth String Quartet, critic Erik Smith wrote, "The Borodin Quartet played this work for the composer at his Moscow home, hoping for his criticisms. But Shostakovich, overwhelmed by this beautiful realization of his most personal feelings, buried his head in ...
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.
Franz Schubert 's final chamber work, the String Quintet in C major ( D. 956, Op. posth. 163) is sometimes called the "Cello Quintet" because it is scored for a standard string quartet plus an extra cello instead of the extra viola which is more usual in conventional string quintets. It was composed in 1828 and completed just two months before ...
The String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, nicknamed "Dissonance" on account of the unusual counterpoint in its slow introduction. It is perhaps the most famous of his quartets.
String Quartet in C minor may refer to: String Quartet No. 4 (Beethoven) Quartettsatz, D 103 (Schubert) Quartettsatz, D 703 (Schubert) String Quartet (Bruckner) String Quartet (Jadassohn) String Quartet No. 1 (Brahms) String Quartet No. 4 (Oswald) String Quartet (Chausson)
The Quartettsatz in c-Moll (English: Quartet Movement in C minor), D. 103 was composed by Franz Schubert in 1814. It is believed to be the only surviving movement of a complete quartet in C minor. It is believed to be the only surviving movement of a complete quartet in C minor.
In 2006 the Alexander String Quartet recorded the movement for CD. As part their 20th anniversary concert series entitled the Fragments Project the Brentano String Quartet commissioned composer Stephen Hartke to write a companion piece to the movement. The piece entitled "From The Fifth Book" was completed in 2011.