String Quartet No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)
Composition for string quartet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's String Quartet No. 1 in D major Op. 11 was the first of his three completed string quartets that were published during his lifetime. An earlier attempt had been abandoned after the first movement was completed.[1]
Composed in February 1871, it was premiered in Moscow on 16/28 March 1871 by four members of the Russian Musical Society: Ferdinand Laub and Ludvig Minkus, violins; Pryanishnikov, viola; and Wilhelm Fitzenhagen, cello.[2] Tchaikovsky arranged the second movement for cello and string orchestra in 1888.