String Quartet No. 5 (Shostakovich)

Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 92, was composed in autumn 1952. It was premiered in Leningrad in November 1953 by the Beethoven Quartet, to whom it is dedicated.[1]

Structure

It consists of three movements, performed without a break:

Playing time is approximately 30 minutes.

The work grows from a five-note motif, C–D–E–B–C, which contains the four pitch-classes of the composer's musical monogram: DSCH (E being Es and B being H in German). This motif appears in a number of his other string quartets, including String Quartet No. 8, as well as his Symphony No. 10.[2]

Notes

  1. Harris (2014)
  2. Griffiiths (2012)

References

  • Griffiths, Paul (2012). "Quartet No. 5 in B-flat major for Strings, Op. 92". The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
  • Harris, Stephen (2014). "Shostakovich: the string quartets, Quartet No. 5". Shostakovich: the string quartets.


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