A thorough examination of Shostakovich's string quartets is long overdue. Although they can justifiably lay claim to being the most significant and frequently performed twentieth-century oeuvre for that ensemble, there has been no systematic English-language study of the entire cycle.
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Dr Judith Kuhn is a recovering lawyer who received her PhD in musicology from the University of Manchester, UK, in 2005. She currently teaches musicology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the USA.
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Contents: Introduction; Quartet No. 1 in C, Op. 49 (1938); Quartet No. 2 in A, op. 68 (1944); Quartet No. 3 in F, Op. 73 (1946); Quartet No. 4 in D, Op. 83 (1949); Quartet No. 5 in B flat, Op. 92 (1952); Quartet No. 6 In G, Op. 101 (1956); Quartet No. 7 in F# minor, Op. 108 (1960); Epilogue: Shostakovich in dialogue; Select bibliography; Index.