• The Shostakovich Quartet was a string quartet formed in September 1966 at the Moscow Conservatory, and which continued to perform for some 47 years (with...
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  • Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110, was written in three days (12–14 July 1960). The piece was written shortly after Shostakovich...
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    The String Quartet No. 15 in E-flat minor, Op. 144 by Dmitri Shostakovich is the composer's last. It was his first quartet since the Sixth (and only one...
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    Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September [O.S. 12 September] 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally...
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    Beethoven Quartet over dinner in 1938 led to the creation of the Piano Quintet. Originally, Shostakovich had conceived the work as a string quartet. However...
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  • Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73, was composed in 1946. He wrote most of it between May and August of 1946 while visiting...
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    Dmitri Shostakovich typically catalogued his compositions and occasionally his arrangements of other composers' music with opus numbers. He began this...
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  • Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68, was completed in September 1944 in just nineteen days in Ivanovo, 300 kilometres north-east...
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  • Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 49, was composed in six weeks during the summer of 1938. He began to work on the quartet on the...
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  • and Europe. The quartet had a close relationship with composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who personally consulted them on each of his quartets. They also performed...
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    String quartet recordings on copyright free LPs at the European Archive (for non-American users only). Shostakovich: the string quartets String quartet compositions...
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    Maxim Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Макси́м Дми́триевич Шостако́вич; born 10 May 1938 in Leningrad) is a Soviet, Russian and American conductor and pianist...
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    Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 10 in A-flat major, Op. 118, was composed from 9 to 20 July 1964. It was premiered by the Beethoven Quartet in Moscow...
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  • Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 9 in E-flat major, Op. 117, was composed in 1964 and premiered by the Beethoven Quartet. The Ninth Quartet was dedicated...
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  • Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77, was originally composed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1947–48. He was still working on the piece at the time of the Zhdanov...
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  • Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 14 in F-sharp major, Op. 142, was composed in 1972–73. It is dedicated to Sergei Shirinsky, the cellist of the...
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  • performance Shostakovich Quartet, a string quartet active 1966-2014 Shostakovich Peninsula on southern Alexander Island, Antarctica 2669 Shostakovich, an 18km...
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  • Dmitri Shostakovich began work on his String Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp minor, Op. 108, in May 1959 and completed it in March 1960. He dedicated it to the...
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  • Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 12 in D-flat major, Op. 133, was composed in 1968. It is dedicated to Dmitri Tsyganov, the first violinist of...
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  • 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...
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  • Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat minor, Op. 138, was first conceived in 1969, and completed in 1970 as Shostakovich was undergoing...
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  • String Quartet Shostakovich Signum String Quartet Silesian String Quartet SKAZ String Quartet Smetana Quartet Smith Quartet Soldier String Quartet Somogyi...
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  • the Moscow Conservatory Quartet to the Beethoven Quartet. From 1938, it collaborated closely with the composer Dmitri Shostakovich and premiered thirteen...
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  • Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 6 in G major, Op. 101, was composed in the summer of 1956. It was premiered by the Beethoven Quartet in October...
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  • The String Quartet No. 16 in B major is an unrealized musical composition by Dmitri Shostakovich. On April 11, 1974, the Polish composer Krzysztof Meyer...
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  • their Shostakovich Quartets. "About the Carducci String Quartet – Carducci Quartet". Retrieved 2022-01-24. "About the Carducci String Quartet – Carducci...
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  • Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 4 in D major, Op. 83, was composed in 1949 and premiered in Moscow on 3 December 1953. It is dedicated to the...
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    and Dmitri Shostakovich (15). The Italian composer Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805), wrote 91 string quartets. Less often, string quartets are written for...
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  • needed] Many homages to Shostakovich (such as Schnittke's Prelude in memory of Dmitri Shostakovich or Tsintsadze's 9th String Quartet) make extensive use...
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    String Quartets 2000 Shostakovich: The String Quartets Gramophone Classical Music Awards: Chamber (Record of the Year) 1989 - Bartók: String Quartets Nos...
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