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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

String Quartet No. 3 (Tchaikovsky)

The String Quartet No. 3 in E minor, Op. 30, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was composed in 1876, and is the last of his three string quartets. It was written as a memorial for Ferdinand Laub. (The

Structure#

The work is in four movements and is approximately 37 minutes long. The Andante funebre was originally intended to be the second movement, with the Allegretto vivo e scherzando as the third, but Tchaikovsky later decided to switch them.

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky