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History
String Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp minor, Op. 108 by Dmitri Shostakovich was composed in February and March 1960 in memory of his first wife Nina Vassilyevna Varzar, who died in December 1954. It was premiered in Leningrad by the Beethoven Quartet on 15 May 1960. This string quartet is not as popular as the other Shostakovich's quartet because it is very short. In fact, this is Shostakovich's shortest string quartet with the duration of 13 minutes.

This quartet consists of three movements with attacca, which means that it will be performed without a break in between the movements. Even though the score looks like it has four movements, Shostakovich still considered the "fourth" movement attach to the third movement.

I. Allegretto
The counterpoint in this movement is phenomenal. It can be described as a conversation of a two opposite characters starts at the beginning of the movement. There are two distinct character through the rhythmic pattern in the opening. The first violin has two sixteenth notes followed by an eight note while the cello answer it with straight three eight notes in the lower register. The straight eight notes can be assumed as a foot step like tip toes and sneaking around.