ExclusiveSchubert: String Quartet No. 13 in A minor "Rosamunde" - II. Andante

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The String Quartet No. 13 in A minor (the Rosamunde Quartet), D 804, Op. 29, was written by Franz Schubert between February and March 1824. It dates from around the same time as his monumental Death and the Maiden Quartet, and was written some three years after his previous attempt to write for the string quartet genre, the Quartettsatz, D 703, which he never finished.

From 1824 onwards, Schubert largely turned away from song composition to concentrate on instrumental chamber music. In addition to the A minor String Quartet, the Quartet in D minor, the Octet, the Grand Duo and the Divertissement a la Hongroise (both for piano duet) and the Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano all date from this year. With the exception of the Grand Duo, all of these works contain cyclical elements - that is, two or more movements in each work are deliberately related in some way to enhance the sense of unity. In the case of the A minor Quartet, a motive from the third movement's minuet becomes the main melodic figure for the following finale.

Schubert dedicated the work to Schuppanzigh, who was the first violinist in Beethoven's string quartet. Schuppanzigh himself played at the premiere on 14 March 1824.

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