The overture that the work begins with is in sonata form, traditional for the first movement of such a work. The music is strong, forceful, and animated. This strong tone is subdued by the lyrical, wandering mood of the recitative. The first violin leads a slow, distressed line of music over soft seventh chords, and eventually finds calm in the romance. The finale works around to and ends in A minor, meaning that the quartet ends in the parallel minor to the opening major key.
| Date of composition | 1944 in Ivanovo, Ivanovo Oblast, Russia |
| Type | String Quartet |
| Tonality | A Major |
| Catalogue | Op. 68 |
| Approx. duration | 35 minutes |
| Instruments | String Quartet |
| Autotranslations beta |
Dmitri Chostakovitch: Quatuor à cordes n°2 en la majeur, Op. 68 Dmitrij Šostakovič: Quartetto d'archi n. 2 in la maggiore, Op. 68 Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch: Streichquartett Nr. 2 A-dur, Op. 68 |