Title: String Quartet No. 4 (Piston)
Content:  String Quartet No. 4 by Walter Piston is a chamber-music work composed in 1951.
Title: String Quartet No. 4 (Beethoven)
Content: 1) Allegro ma non tanto (C minor) ; 2) Andante scherzoso quasi allegretto (C major) ; 3) Menuetto: Allegretto (C minor) ; 4) Allegro – Prestissimo (C minor) The String Quartet No. 4 in C minor, Op. 18, No. 4, was written by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1798 and 1800 and published in 1801, dedicated to Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz. It consists of four movements:  It is thought that this quartet may be in part based upon earlier material.
Title: String Quartet No. 4 (Carter)
Content:  The Fourth String Quartet by American composer Elliott Carter was composed in 1985–86 in New York City and Rome, and completed in June 1986. It was premiered on September 17, 1986 at Festival Miami, University of Miami, Florida by the Composers String Quartet.
Title: String Quartet No. 4 (Bartók)
Content:  The String Quartet No. 4 in C major by Béla Bartók was written from July to September 1928 in Budapest. It is one of six string quartets by Bartok. The work is dedicated to the Pro Arte Quartet but its first public performance was given by the Waldbauer-Kerpely Quartet in Budapest on 20 March 1929. It was first published in the same year by Universal Edition.
Title: String Quartet No. 4 (Shostakovich)
Content:  Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 4 in D major, Op. 83, was composed in 1949. It was premiered in Moscow in 1953 and is dedicated to the memory of Pyotr Vilyams (1902–1947), the artist and set designer. It has four movements: 1. Allegretto 2. Andantino 3. Allegretto (attacca) 4. Allegretto Playing time is approximately 25 minutes. This string quartet is notable for the second movement's sustained, passionate first violin part, which rises to ecstatic heights, and also for the suspenseful and complex last movement. The quartet is based on Jewish themes.
Title: String Quartet No. 4 (Mendelssohn)
Content:  The String Quartet No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44, No. 2, was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1837, and revised in 1839. This work was premièred on 29 October 1837 at Leipzig with great success, and published as a full score in 1840. The piece is part of the Op. 44 set of 3 string quartets that Mendelssohn dedicated to the Crown Prince of Sweden. While Mendelssohn's first and second quartet were written under the influence of Beethoven, Op.44 exhibits a clear sprouting of the composer's originality in style.
Title: String Quartet No. 4 (Hindemith)
Content:  The String Quartet No. 4, Op. 22 by Paul Hindemith was written in 1921 and published in 1923. A performance of the work takes about 26 minutes.
Title: String Quartet No. 4 (Nielsen)
Content:  The Fourth String Quartet was composed between two of Nielsen's major dramatic works, the comic opera Maskarade and his music for Holger Drachmann's melodrama Hr. Oluf, han rider -. The first two movements were written in February and March and the last two in June and July 1906. It was first performed privately at the home of Nielsen's friends, Viggo and Bodil Neergaard, Fuglsang on the island of Lolland. In August 1906, Nielsen wrote to his friend Henrik Knudsen: "Today we played my new quartet and it sounds as I had expected. I am beginning to discover the true nature of string instruments." The quartet was originally entitled Piacevolezza after the first movement which was marked Allegro piacevolo ed indolente (agreeably and lazily). In the revised 1919 edition, the movement was renamed Allegro non tanto e comodo and the title was dropped. The work remained in manuscript form until 1923 when it was published by Peters of Leipzig.
Title: String Quartet No. 4 (Rautavaara)
Content:  The String Quartet No. 4, Op. 87, was Einojuhani Rautavaara's last string quartet, composed in 1975.
Title: String Quartet No. 4 (Schubert)
Content:  The String Quartet No. 4 (D 46) in C major was composed by Franz Schubert in 1813.

Question: Who was the composer of String Quartet No. 4?
Answer: Dmitri Shostakovich.
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