Opus 9 – String Quartet No. 2

String Quartet No. 3 in G Spartan, “Pathetique”, Op. 9

Details

Date of composition: 2003

Duration (approx.): 17 minutes

Instrumentation: string quartet

Movements:

  • I-Languishing (in the Spartan mode)
  • II-Violent, with rage (in the Dardanian mode)
  • III-Mournful, with mystique (in the Aeolian mode)
  • IV-Cascading, seemingly joyous (in the Mixolydian mode)
  • V-Bleak, melancholy (in the Spartan mode)