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Death and the Maiden Quartet (Schubert)
The String Quartet in D minor written in 1824 by Franz Schubert, just after the composer became aware of his ruined health, is popularly known as the Death and the Maiden Quartet from the variation-subject of the second movement. In the numerical order of his quartets it is his String Quartet No.
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