String Quartet No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)

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String Quartet No. 1 in D major was the first of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's three string quartets.

The melancholic Andante cantabile movement of the quartet has become famous, and was founded on a folk-song the composer heard whistled by a house painter. When the quartet was performed at a tribute concert to Leo Tolstoy, the author was said to have been brought to tears by this movement.