String Quartet No. 3 (Homage to Beethoven) : Fugue
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FLUX Quartet plays Conlon Nancarrow String Quartet No 3, mvt 1
Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73, was composed in 1946 after his Symphony No. 9 was censured by Soviet authorities. It was premiered in Moscow by the Beethoven Quartet, to whom it is dedicated, in December 1946.