String Quartet No. 6 may refer to:
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String Quartet No. 6 (Babbitt) by Milton Babbitt
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String Quartet No. 6 (Bartók)
The String Quartet No. 6 in D minor, Sz. 114, BB 119, was the final string quartet that Béla Bartók wrote before his death in 1945.
The composition of the piece came at a very tumultuous time in the composer's life. With the outbreak of World Wa ...
by Béla Bartók
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String Quartet No. 6 (Beethoven) by Ludwig van Beethoven
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String Quartet No. 6 (Diamond) by
David Diamond
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String Quartet No. 6 (Dvořák) Antonín Dvořák composed his String Quartet No. 6 in A minor, List of compositions by Antonín Dvořák by Burghauser number, B. 40 Opus number, Op. 12, in November and December 1873, finishing it on 5 December. He later revised it, ...
by Antonín Dvořák
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String Quartet No. 6 (Ferneyhough) by
Brian Ferneyhough
Brian John Peter Ferneyhough (; born 16 January 1943) is an English composer. Ferneyhough is typically considered the central figure of the New Complexity movement. Ferneyhough has taught composition at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and ...
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String Quartet No. 6 (Halffter) by
Cristóbal Halffter
Cristóbal Halffter Jiménez-Encina (24 March 1930 – 23 May 2021) was a Spanish classical composer. He was the nephew of two other composers, Rodolfo and Ernesto Halffter and is regarded as the most important Spanish composer of the gene ...
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String Quartet No. 6 (Hill) by
Alfred Hill Alfred Hill may refer to:
* Alfred John Hill (1862–1927), British railway engineer
* Alfred Hill (cricketer, born 1865) (1865–1936), English cricketer
* Alfred Hill (politician) (1867–1945), British Member of Parliament for Leicester West 192 ...
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String Quartet No. 6 (McCabe), ''Silver Nocturnes'', by
John McCabe John McCabe may refer to:
* John McCabe (composer) (1939–2015), British composer and classical pianist
* John McCabe (writer) (1920–2005), Shakespearean scholar and biographer
* Christopher John McCabe (born 1967), British biologist and ...
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String Quartet No. 6 (Maconchy) by
Elizabeth Maconchy
Dame Elizabeth Violet Maconchy LeFanu (; 19 March 1907 – 11 November 1994) was an Irish-English composer. She is considered to be one of the finest composers Great Britain and Ireland have produced.
Biography
Elizabeth Violet Maconchy was ...
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String Quartet No. 6 (Mendelssohn)
The String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80 was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1847. It was the last major piece he completed before he died two months later, on 4 November 1847. It is believed he composed the piece as an homage to his sister ...
by Felix Mendelssohn
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String Quartet No. 6 (Milhaud), Op. 77, by
Darius Milhaud
Darius Milhaud (; 4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as ''The Group of Six''—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions ...
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String Quartet No. 6 (Mozart) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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String Quartet No. 6 (Porter) by
Quincy Porter
William Quincy Porter (February 7, 1897 – November 12, 1966) was an American composer and teacher of classical music.
Biography
Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he went to Yale University where his teachers included Horatio Parker and David ...
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String Quartet No. 6 (Rihm) by
Wolfgang Rihm
Wolfgang Rihm (born 13 March 1952) is a German composer and academic teacher. He is musical director of the Institute of New Music and Media at the University of Music Karlsruhe and has been composer in residence at the Lucerne Festival and the ...
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String Quartet No. 6 (Schubert) The String Quartet No. 6 ( D 74) in D major was composed by Franz Schubert in 1813.
Movements
# Allegro ma non troppo (D major)
# Andante (G major)
# Menuetto: Allegro (D major, with Trio in D major)
# Allegro (D major)
Sources
* Franz Schubert's ...
by Franz Schubert
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String Quartet No. 6 (Shostakovich)
Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 6 in G major, Op. 101, was composed in the summer of 1956. It was premiered by the Beethoven Quartet in October 1956. It carries no dedication. The Beethoven Quartet recorded this work on the Mezhdunar ...
by Dmitri Shostakovich
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String Quartet No. 6 (Spohr) by Louis Spohr
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String Quartet No. 6 (Villa-Lobos)
String Quartet No. 6 ("Brazilian") is one of seventeen works in the genre by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, and was written in 1938, in between his early and late periods. Villa-Lobos considered naming it "Quartet Popular No. 2" as opp ...
by Heitor Villa-Lobos
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