Description
String Quartet c minor (1881)
duration: 33′
Sound Research of Women Composers: Twentieth Century (T 17)
An expressive work, based on societal needs of having to enforce incessantly. The musical
language is inspired by the intensive study of Beethoven, at the same time progressively and
independent.
Ethel Smyth studied composition with Carl Reinecke at the Leipzig Conservatory, when she wrotes her string quartet in C minor. It is inspired by the study of
Beethoven‘s chamber music.
