String Quartet No. 4 (Shostakovich)
The string quartet in D major op. 83 is Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Shostakowitsch's 4th string quartet .
The four-movement composition was written in 1949 at a time when Shostakovich, who was exposed to the repression of the Soviet regime under Josef Stalin , postponed composing orchestral works and concentrated on creating “private” chamber music . This inwardness becomes particularly clear in this string quartet. Free of pathos, the work is characterized by lyrical, melancholy singing, which is seldom interrupted by cheerful, dance-like passages. The final movement is characterized by melodies from Jewish folk music , which was one of the reasons that Shostakovich withheld his composition until after Stalin's death. The string quartet was finally premiered on December 3, 1953 by the Beethoven Quartet in Moscow. The sentences are in detail: Allegretto - Andantino - Allegretto (attacca) - Allegretto . Duration approx. 22 minutes.
Like several other string quartets by Shostakovich, this was also arranged by his friend and musician colleague Rudolf Borissowitsch Barschai into a chamber symphony for string orchestra.
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- ↑ Marco F. Frei: Chaos instead of music: Dmitri Schostakowitsch, the Pravda campaign from 1936 to 1938 and socialist realism , Saarbrücken 2006, ISBN 3-89727-330-6 , p. 162