String Quartet No. 5 (Shostakovich)
Template:Short description Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 92, was composed in autumn 1952. It was premiered in Moscow on 13 November 1953 by the Beethoven Quartet, to whom it is dedicated.[1]
Structure
It consists of three movements, performed without a break:
Playing time is approximately 30 minutes.
The work grows from a five-note motif, C–D–ETemplate:Music–B–CTemplate:Music, which contains the four pitch-classes of the composer's musical monogram: DSCH (ETemplate:Music being Es and B being H in German). This motif appears in a number of his other compositions, including String Quartet No. 8, the first Violin Concerto, and the Symphony No. 10.[2]
Notes
References
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External links
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