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Shostakovich String Quartets
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Shostakovich_String_Quartets
GPTKB entity
Statements (58)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
musical composition cycle
gptkbp:composer
gptkb:Dmitri_Shostakovich
gptkbp:compositionPeriod
1938
1974
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin
gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkbp:criticalReception
highly acclaimed
considered masterpieces of chamber music
gptkbp:dedicatedTo
gptkb:Alla_Basilevna_Shostakovich
gptkb:Elena_Konstantinovskaya
gptkb:Memory_of_Ivan_Sollertinsky
gptkb:Memory_of_Pyotr_Vilyams
gptkb:Memory_of_victims_of_fascism_and_war
gptkb:Beethoven_Quartet
gptkb:Mstislav_Rostropovich
gptkb:Galina_Shostakovich
gptkb:Vadim_Borisovsky
gptkb:Dmitri_Tsyganov
gptkb:Sergei_Shirinsky
gptkb:Vasily_Shirinsky
Memory of his first wife Nina Varzar
members of the Beethoven Quartet
gptkbp:firstQuartet
gptkb:String_Quartet_No._1_in_C_major,_Op._49
gptkbp:genre
gptkb:string_quartet
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Shostakovich String Quartets
gptkbp:influenced
contemporary composers
20th-century string quartet repertoire
gptkbp:influencedBy
gptkb:Ludwig_van_Beethoven
Russian folk music
gptkbp:language
gptkb:Russian
gptkbp:lastQuartet
gptkb:String_Quartet_No._15_in_E-flat_minor,_Op._144
gptkbp:notableFeature
autobiographical elements
innovative structure
political subtext
use of DSCH motif
varied emotional range
gptkbp:notableOrganization
gptkb:String_Quartet_No._15_in_E-flat_minor,_Op._144
gptkb:String_Quartet_No._3_in_F_major,_Op._73
gptkb:String_Quartet_No._5_in_B-flat_major,_Op._92
gptkb:String_Quartet_No._7_in_F-sharp_minor,_Op._108
gptkb:String_Quartet_No._8_in_C_minor,_Op._110
gptkbp:notablePerformance
Beethoven Quartet premiere of most quartets
Borodin Quartet premiere of several quartets
gptkbp:notableRecording
Beethoven Quartet complete cycle
Borodin Quartet complete cycle
Emerson String Quartet complete cycle
Fitzwilliam String Quartet complete cycle
gptkbp:numberOfBooks
15
gptkbp:performedBy
gptkb:Beethoven_Quartet
gptkb:Emerson_String_Quartet
gptkb:Borodin_Quartet
gptkbp:recordedAt
gptkb:Emerson_String_Quartet
gptkb:Borodin_Quartet
gptkb:Fitzwilliam_String_Quartet
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Alexander_String_Quartet
gptkb:Quatuor_Emerson
gptkb:Quatuor_Juilliard
gptkb:Jerusalem_Quartet
gptkbp:bfsLayer
7