String Quartet No. 14 (Schubert)
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String Quartet No. 14 (Schubert)
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The String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D 810, known as Death and the Maiden, is a piece by Franz Schubert that has been called "one of the pillars of the chamber music repertoire". It was composed in 1824, after the composer suffered from a serious illness and realized that he was dying. It is named for the theme of the second movement, which Schubert took from a song he wrote in 1817 of the same title. But, writes Walter Willson Cobbett, all four movements of the quartet are welded "into a unity
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1824 composition for string quartet by Schubert
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No._14_(Schubert)
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2004-12-23T17:02:36Z
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2024-09-13T19:03:09Z
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