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Haydn and Schumann
Doric String Quartet
Date
Sun 20 Dec 2015, 11.30am
Duration
This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval
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Artists

  • Doric String Quartet

    Programme

    • Joseph Haydn
      1732-1809
        • String Quartet in G major Op. 64 No. 4 66

    Encore

    • Béla Bartók
      1881-1945
        • String Quartet No. 4 BB95
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        • IV. Allegretto pizzicato

    Overview

    Schumann’s String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1arose from his close study of Beethoven’s late stringquartets and the contributions to the genre byHaydn and Mozart.

    The Doric String Quartet setsthe scene with Haydn’s astonishingly individual,wonderfully subversive response to Classicalconventions of composition.

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