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{{Short description|Composed in 1952 premiered in 1953}}
[[Dmitri Shostakovich|Dmitri Shostakovich's]] '''String Quartet No. 5 in [[B-flat major]]''', [[Opus number|Op.]] 92, was composed in autumn [[1952 in music|1952]]. It was premiered in [[Moscow]] on 13 November 1953 by the [[Beethoven Quartet]], to whom it is dedicated.<ref>Harris (2014)</ref>

==Structure==

It consists of three [[movement (music)|movement]]s, performed without a break:

{{ordered list|list_style_type=upper-roman
| [[Tempo|Allegro non troppo]] —
| [[Andante (tempo)|Andante]] — [[Tempo#Italian tempo markings|Andantino]] — [[Andante (tempo)|Andante]] — [[Tempo#Italian tempo markings|Andantino]] — [[Andante (tempo)|Andante]] —
| [[Tempo|Moderato]] — [[Allegretto]] — [[Tempo|Andante]]}}

Playing time is approximately 30 minutes.

The work grows from a five-note motif, C–D–E{{music|flat}}–B–C{{music|sharp}}, which contains the four pitch-classes of the composer's musical monogram: [[DSCH motif|DSCH]] (E{{music|flat}} being ''Es'' and B being ''H'' in German). This motif appears in a number of his other compositions, including [[String Quartet No. 8 (Shostakovich)|String Quartet No. 8]], the first [[Violin Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich)|Violin Concerto]], and the [[Symphony No. 10 (Shostakovich)|Symphony No. 10]].<ref>Griffiiths (2012)</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
* {{cite web|url=http://www.shostakovichquartets.com/quartets/page/quartet-no-5|last=Griffiths|first=Paul|title=Quartet No. 5 in B-flat major for Strings, Op. 92|publisher=The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center|year=2012}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.quartets.de/compositions/ssq05.html|last=Harris|first=Stephen|title=Shostakovich: the string quartets, Quartet No. 5|publisher=Shostakovich: the string quartets|year=2014}}

==External links==
* {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eV7lD9Rw-Y |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/1eV7lD9Rw-Y |archive-date=2021-12-19 |url-status=live|last=Parloff|first=Michael|title=Lecture on Shostakovich Quartets Nos. 1, 5, 6, & 12|publisher=YouTube|date=25 March 2013}}{{cbignore}}

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