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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K. 421/417b is the second of his quartets dedicated to Haydn and the only one of the set in a minor key. Though undated in the autograph , [ 1 ] it is believed to have been completed in 1783, while his wife Constanze Mozart was in labour with her first child Raimund.
Antonín Dvořák finished the composition of his String Quartet No. 9 in D minor, Op. 34, (B. 75) on 18 December 1877, having probably started it in July of that year. [ 1 ] Background
The String Quartet in D minor, Voces intimae (literal English translation: "Intimate voices" or "Inner voices"), Op. 56, is a five-movement chamber piece for two violins, viola, and cello written in 1909 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. It is the only major work for string quartet of his mature period.
G 168: String Quartet Op. 8 No. 4 in G minor; G 169: String Quartet Op. 8 No. 5 in F major; G 170: String Quartet Op. 8 No. 6 in A major; G 171: String Quartet Op. 9 No. 1 in C minor (1770) G 172: String Quartet Op. 9 No. 2 in D minor; G 173: String Quartet Op. 9 No. 3 in F major; G 174: String Quartet Op. 9 No. 4 in E-flat major
The String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D 810, known as Death and the Maiden, is a piece by Franz Schubert that has been called "one of the pillars of the chamber music repertoire". [1] It was composed in 1824, after the composer suffered from a serious illness and realized that he was dying.
String Quartet in D minor may refer to: No. 2 of the String Quartets, Op. 76 (Haydn) String Quartet No. 13 (Mozart) String Quartet No. 15 (Mozart) String Quartet No. 14 (Schubert) String Quartet No. 3 (Spohr) String Quartet No. 2 (Smetana) String Quartet No. 9 (Dvořák) String Quartet (Fitzenhagen) String Quartet No. 1 (Schoenberg)
The program features Dmitri Shostakovich's "String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op 110," Osvaldo Golijov's "Tenebrae," Franz Schubert's "String Quartet in D minor, D. 810, (Death and the Maiden)."
Joseph Haydn wrote sixty-eight string quartets. (The number was previously thought to be eighty-three, but this includes some arrangements and spurious works.) They are usually referred to by their opus numbers, not Anthony van Hoboken's catalogue numbers or their publication order in the First Haydn Edition (FHE).