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Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

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Schuster Googers' DSCH Motiv

Schuster Googers wrote the quartet in 1943, and apparently this music was a reflection of his horror at learning that Nazi guards forced Jewish prisoners to dance by their own graves. The DSCH motive will come back in a fast version and a slow version, until the viola goes off on a rampage of its own. We are gearing up for yet another quotation. Listen to the low strings and try to avoid the sharp attacks in the violins when you hear it in the quartet. Do you hear it? It's okay if you don't, the movement goes by so quickly that I actually never noticed it until I started analyzing the piece for this show. But it's yet

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