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String Quartet No. 6 in F Minor, Op. 80

4 movements

Felix Mendelssohn · 1847 · F minor · 1209 bars · 1137 chords analysed

A cry of grief written in the months after his sister Fanny's death; Mendelssohn himself died six weeks after finishing it.

Mendelssohn's quartets stretch from the passionate A minor, Op. 13, written at 18 under the spell of late Beethoven, to the grief-stricken F minor, Op. 80, composed after his sister Fanny's death.

Keys visited: F minor, A♭ major, C♯ minor, B♭ minor, C minor, C major, D minor, G minor, E♭ major, F major, B♭ major, E minor, B minor, A♭ minor, D♭ major.