String Quartet No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44 No. 2
This guide follows Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44 No. 2 (1837) in four parts: Allegro assai appassionato (sonata form), Scherzo: Allegro di molto, Andante (sonata form) and Presto agitato (sonata form).
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Follow all 41 sections as they play
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- II:
- III
- IV
There is no slow . Syncopated chords in the inner parts push the music forward while the first violin rises above them with the first . Soon semiquavers in all four instruments are broken into and tossed between the players. A gentler arrives next, and a ends the . Then come the , the and the .
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II: 8:46–12:53
Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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