String Quartet No. 3 (Brahms)
The String Quartet No. 3 in B flat major, Op. 67, was composed by Johannes Brahms in the summer of 1875 and published by the firm of Fritz Simrock.[1] It received its premiere performance on October 30, 1876 in Berlin.[2] The work is scored for two violins, viola, and cello, and has four movements:
- I. Vivace
- II. Andante
- III. Agitato (Allegretto non troppo) – Trio – Coda
- IV. Poco Allegretto con Variazioni
Brahms composed the work in Ziegelhausen, near Heidelberg, and dedicated it to Professor Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann, an amateur cellist who had hosted Brahms on a visit to Utrecht. Brahms was at the time the artistic director of the Vienna Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde.[1][2] The work is light-hearted and cheerful, "a useless trifle," as he put it, "to avoid facing the serious countenance of a symphony", referring to the work on his first symphony which debuted a week later.[1]
References
External links
- String Quartet No. 3 (Brahms): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
- Performance of String Quartet No. 3 by the Borromeo String Quartet from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in MP3 format