String Quartet No.2 in B minor (Weber, Joseph Miroslav)

		Movements/Sections 4 movements I. Allegretto II. Minuetto moderato III. Comodo IV. Allegro furioso Composition Year 1891 Genre Categories Quartets; For 2 violins, viola, cello; Scores featuring the violin; Scores featuring the viola; Scores featuring the cello; For 4 players

Performances

• Recordings (4)

Recordings

 I. Allegretto
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 II. Minuetto moderato
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 III. Comodo
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 IV. Allegro furioso
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Steve's Bedroom Band (string quartet)

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Steve Jones

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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 [tag/del]

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Sheet Music

• Parts (4)

Parts

 Violin 1
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 Violin 2
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 Viola
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 Violoncello
*#41452 - 0.72MB, 12 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 81x⇩

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Aldona Jones (2009/10/13)

Editor:

First edition

Publisher Info.:

Copenhagen/Leipzig: Wilhelm Hansen. n.d.[1892]. Plate 11108.

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Public Domain [tag/del]

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General Information

Work Title	String Quartet No.2 in B minor
Alternative Title	Preis-Quartett

Composer	Weber, Joseph Miroslav
Key	B minor
Movements/Sections	4 movements I. Allegretto II. Minuetto moderato III. Comodo IV. Allegro furioso
Year/Date of Composition	1891
First Performance	1892 April 27 (New System), St. Petersburg, Russia
First Publication	1892 – Copenhagen/Leipzig: Wilhelm Hansen
Dedication	Ernst Ludwig, Grossherzog von Hessen und bei Rhein etc.
Average Duration	23 minutes
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	2 Violins, Viola, Violoncello

Misc. Comments

First movement only played (Urtheilspruch) and awarded first prize in a competition by Tchaikovsky, Napravnik, Rimsky-Korsakov and Laroche March 1892. Quartet premiered April 1892.