The Piano Concerto in F sharp minor, Op. 20, is an early work of which Russian composer and pianist?
Piano Concerto (Scriabin) The Piano Concerto in F sharp minor, Op. 20, is an early work of the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915). Written in 1896, when he was 24, it was his first work for orchestra and the only concerto he composed. Scriabin completed the concerto in only a few days in the fall of 1896, but did not finish the orchestration until the following May. It premiered on October 23, 1897.
String Quartet No. 7 (Shostakovich) Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp minor (Op. 108) 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. It consists of three movements, performed without a break: