Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 4 in D major, Op. 83 (1949)

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 9 August 1975) was a Soviet composer and pianist, and a prominent figure of 20thcentury music. Please support my channel: String Quartet No. 4 in D major, Op. 83 (1949) Dedicated to the memory of Pyotr Vilyams (19021947), the artist and set designer. 1. Allegretto (0:00) 2. Andantino (3:35) 3. Allegretto (10:20) 4. Allegretto (15:08) Fitzwilliam Quartet reupload from old channel. Description by Robert Cummings Like the Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 67 (1944), the String Quartet No. 4 features thematic elements of Jewish inspiration. But in the postwar era and until Stalin s death in 1953, Shostakovich had become well aware he could not display any obvious sympathies with Jews and Jewish culture in his compositions and thus withheld the work from performance until after the tyrant s passing. The first movement, marked Allegretto, begins with the viola an