String Quartet No. 8

Summary

String Quartet No. 8 is a musical work/composition^[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (414 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• String Quartet No. 8's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition^[3].
• String Quartet No. 8's composer is recorded as Dmitri Shostakovich^[4].
• String Quartet No. 8's tonality is recorded as C minor^[5].
• String Quartet No. 8's instrumentation is recorded as violin^[6].
• String Quartet No. 8's instrumentation is recorded as viola^[7].
• String Quartet No. 8's instrumentation is recorded as cello^[8].
• String Quartet No. 8's date of first performance is recorded as October 2, 1960^[9].
• String Quartet No. 8's duration is recorded as {'unit': 'Q7727', 'amount': '+19'}^[10].
• String Quartet No. 8's form of creative work is recorded as string quartet^[11].
• String Quartet No. 8's opus number is recorded as 110^[12].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

• Release type: Quartet^[13]

• Genre(s): classical^[14]

• Community tags: chamber music, classical^[15]

• MusicBrainz ID: 725265f4-4b9e-46d2-832b-50b0466f1b6f^[16]

Why It Matters

String Quartet No. 8 ranks in the top 4% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (414 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[17]