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Example sentences for "string quartet"

  • In 1886 he founded, with three of his colleagues, a string quartet, which within a short period has gained a respected position in the Berlin musical world.

  • After he had joined his brothers in forming a string quartet, which was distinguished by his performances, he accepted, in 1873, the place offered to him as first cellist in the Brunswick Kapelle.

  • The concert-giver played as an additional piece his own arrangement for the pianoforte of the fugue from Beethoven's String Quartet, Op.

  • The first and last numbers of the programme of three works were severally Mendelssohn's String Quartet in E flat and Beethoven's in C sharp minor, Op.

  • Music: Excerpt from the first movement of Brahms's String Quartet in A Minor, Op.

  • Johannes has been playing me some magnificent movements out of a Requiem of his own and a string quartet in C minor.

  • The concerto has the accompaniment of a string quartet, which may be doubled or increased to the size of a small orchestra if desired.

  • Among other things, a string quartet of Beethoven was played, Joachim taking the first violin.

  • On this occasion I had the accompaniment of a string quartet.

  • A fine soloist on the pianoforte will be more at home in a large auditorium like Carnegie Hall or even the Metropolitan Opera House than would a string quartet or any other combination of chamber-music players.

  • Their music is marked by a simplicity bordering on naivete, and the orchestration is a string quartet with a mere filling out by other instruments.

  • Of these latter the one best known in this country is the so-called "Triple Concerto," for three pianofortes with accompaniment of string quartet, which can at will be increased to a string orchestra.

  • Fugue from a String Quartet in D, from a collection projected by Haslinger--II, 389.

  • He also organised a string quartet, and was considered a most excellent performer of chamber-music.

  • Only on one occasion he invited Peter Ilich to his house and, when they were alone together, showed him the manuscript of a string quartet of his own.

  • For instance, he did not like the combination of piano and orchestra, nor the timbre of a string quartet or quintet, and least of all the effect of the piano with one or more stringed instruments.

  • He first used this melody in a string quartet, which he began to compose in the autumn, but afterwards changed it into the Scherzo à la russe for pianoforte, Op.


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