This guide follows Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 (1960) in five parts: Largo, Allegro molto (sonata form), Allegretto (minuet and trio), Largo and Largo (fugue).
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A slow, mournful fugue. The cello states the four-note DSCH and the other instruments enter in , and a quotation from the First Symphony is heard in this . The opening idea three times (A′, A″ and A‴), with contrasting episodes (B, C and B′) between. The voices finally settle on a single held note, which carries over into the second without a break.
Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
ShostakovichString Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 49ShostakovichString Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73ShostakovichString Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp minor, Op. 108ShostakovichSymphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10ShostakovichSymphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47ShostakovichSymphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93ShostakovichPiano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102ShostakovichCello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 107ShostakovichViola Sonata, Op. 147
BachTrio Sonata No. 1 in E-flat major, BWV 525
HaydnSymphony No. 1 in D major, Hob. I:1HaydnHorn Concerto in D major, Hob. VIId:3HaydnPiano Sonata in A-flat major, Hob. XVI:46HaydnPiano Sonata in C minor, Hob. XVI:20HaydnString Quartet in A major, Op. 20 No. 6HaydnString Quartet in C major, Op. 20 No. 2HaydnString Quartet in D major, Op. 20 No. 4HaydnString Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 20 No. 1HaydnString Quartet in F minor, Op. 20 No. 5Path 05
Four players across almost two centuries: Haydn shapes the conversation, Bartók breaks it open, Shostakovich turns it inward.
Haydn → Mozart → Schubert → Beethoven → Dvořák → Debussy → Reger → Bartók → Shostakovich
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