Dorset Museum Music Society
Solem Quartet
22 February 2023, 7:30pm
Two richly inventive quartets by composers in their young manhood together with a work that is helping to draw its composer out from the shadowy position of being ‘merely’ Robert Schumann’s wife.
Programme
- C SCHUMANN 3 Romances
- BARTOK String Quartet No 2
- MENDELSSOHN String Quartet No 5
CIO 1187277
The Dorset Museum Music Society are fortunate in being able to make use of the Victorian Hall of the Dorset Museum, a unique environment that continues to draw enthusiastic praise from our visiting artists
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