String Quartet No. 5 (Shostakovich)
{{Short description|Composed in 1952 premiered in 1953}}
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.Harris (2014)
Structure
It consists of three movements, performed without a break:
{{ordered list|list_style_type=upper-roman
| Andante — Andantino — Andante — Andantino — Andante —
| Moderato — Allegretto — 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 (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, the first Violin Concerto, and the Symphony No. 10.Griffiiths (2012)
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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Category:Compositions in B-flat major
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