String octet
A string octet is a piece of music written for eight string instruments, or sometimes the group of eight players. It usually consists of 4 violins, 2 violas and 2 cellos, or four violins, two violas, a cello and a double bass.
String octets by notable composers
- Luciano Berio, Korót (eight cellos)
- Max Bruch (with bass replacing the second cello)
- Sylvano Bussotti, Poèsies à Maldoror (eight cellos)
- George Enescu
- Cristóbal Halffter, Fandango (eight cellos)
- Gordon Jacob
- Suite (eight violas)
- Cello Octet (eight cellos)
- Henri Lazarof
- Tomás Marco, Miró (eight cellos)
- Felix Mendelssohn's Octet, Op. 20
- Arvo Pärt
- Fratres (version for eight cellos)
- L'abbe Agathon (eight cellos)
- Steve Reich, Cello Counterpoint (eight cellos)
- Kaija Saariaho, Neiges (eight cellos)
- Gunther Schuller, Hommage a Rayechka (eight cellos)
- Peter Sculthorpe, Chorale (eight cellos)
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Johan Svendsen
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