The Allegretto first movement creates a carefree mood using nursery tunes. The second movement is a cheerful round dance in E-flat major, the third movement a chaconne in B-flat minor. The final movement leads into a complex Allegretto showing the influence of both Alban Berg’s Lyric Suite and Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen. The quartet also features the only vertical appearance of the DSCH motive (the notes D, E-flat, C, and B played at the same time). This happens at the cadence at the end of each movement.
| Date of composition | 1956 |
| Type | String Quartet |
| Tonality | G Major |
| Catalogue | Op. 101 |
| Approx. duration | 22 minutes |
| Instruments | String Quartet |
| Autotranslations beta |
Dmitri Chostakovitch: Quatuor à cordes n°6 en sol majeur, Op. 101 Dmitrij Šostakovič: Quartetto d'archi n. 6 in sol maggiore, Op. 101 Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch: Streichquartett Nr. 6 G-dur, Op. 101 |