String Quartet No. 7 (Shostakovich)

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Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp minor, Op. 108, was composed in February and March 1960 in memory of his first wife , who died in December 1954. It was premiered in Leningrad by the Beethoven Quartet on 15 May 1960. It consists of three movements, performed without a break:

At a duration of around 13 minutes it is Shostakovich's shortest quartet.

Further reading[]

• Rival, Robert (September 2009). "The Comfort of Denial: Metre, Cyclic Form, and Narrative in Shostakovich's Seventh String Quartet". Twentieth-Century Music. 6 (2): 209–235. doi:10.1017/S1478572210000174.

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