String Quartet No. 2 (Mendelssohn)

TheString Quartet No. 2 in A minor,Op. 13, was composed byFelix Mendelssohnin 1827.[1]Written when he was 18 years old, it was, despite its official number, Mendelssohn's first mature string quartet. One of Mendelssohn's most passionate works, the A minor Quartet is one of the earliest and most significant examples ofcyclic formin music. Movements This work has fourmovements: 1.Adagio (A major) – Allegro vivace (A minor,sonata form*) 2.Adagio non lento (F major) 3.Intermezzo: Allegretto con moto (A minor) – Allegro di molto** (A major) 4.Presto*** (A minor) – Adagio non lento (A major) A typical performance lasts about 28 minutes.

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String Quartet No. 1 (Grieg)

Edvard Grieg'sString Quartet No. 1in G minor, Op. 27, is the second of three string quartets written by the composer. The first, in D minor, was an early work, now lost, written in the early 1860s at the request of his teacher,Carl Reinecke. Thethird quartet, in F major, remained incomplete at the composer's death. Background Grieg wrote the quartet in 1877-78, while living at a farm inHardanger.[1][3][4][5]He wrote to a friend "I have recently finished a string quartet which I still haven't heard. It is in G minor and is not intended to bring trivialities to market. It strives towards breadth, soaring flight and above all resonance for the instruments for which it is written."[a] The first performance of the quartet took place in Cologne in October 1878, by a quartet led by the work's dedicatee, violinist Robert Heckmann.[6] Publication of the quartet was delayed when the composer's preferred publisher,C.F. Peters, initially rejected the quartet because they believed thedouble stoppingin some movements would require the work to be rewritten as apiano quartetorquintet. Grieg had to find another publisher, E.W. Fritzsch,[7]and only after the success of that release did C.F. Peters publish their own edition. Structure The work has four movements and lasts around 35 minutes in performance. 1.Un poco andante - Allegro molto ed agitato 2.Romanze:Andantino 3.Intermezzo:Allegro molto marcato - Più vivo e scherzando 4.Finale:Lento - Presto al saltarello

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