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String Quartet (Jadassohn)

work by Salomon Jadassohn

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ16965738 ↗
Source-derived summary

Salomon Jadassohn's String Quartet in C minor, Op. 10, is the composer's only work for the medium. Published in 1858, the quartet was dedicated to his teacher, Moritz Hauptmann.

Structure

The work is structured in four movements:

To date the quartet has not been recorded commercially.

External links

String Quartet (Jadassohn): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project

"Salomon Jadassohn: String Quartet in C minor, Op.10 (Soundbites and discussion)". Edition Silvertrust. Retrieved November 25, 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “String Quartet (Jadassohn)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.