String Octet Most frequently performed string octets include: •
Felix Mendelssohn –
Octet, Op. 20 •
Max Bruch –
String Octet in B♭ major (with bass replacing the second cello) Other string octets include: •
Airat Ichmouratov –
Octet for strings in G minor "Letter from an Unknown Woman" •
Luciano Berio –
Korót (eight cellos) •
Sylvano Bussotti –
Poésies à Maldoror (eight cellos) •
George Enescu –
Octet in C major, Op. 7 •
Niels Gade – String Octet in F major, Op. 17 •
Reinhold Glière – String Octet in D Major, Op. 5 •
Cristóbal Halffter –
Fandango (eight cellos) •
Gordon Jacob • Suite (eight violas) • Cello Octet (eight cellos) •
Tomás Marco –
Miró (eight cellos) •
Darius Milhaud – Octet for Strings, Op. 291 •
Arvo Pärt •
Fratres (version for eight cellos) • ''L'abbé Agathon'' (eight cellos) •
Joachim Raff - String Octet Op. 176 •
Osmo Tapio Räihälä –
Swarm •
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 – Two Pieces for String Octet •
Giovanni Sollima –
Violoncelles, vibrez! (eight cellos) •
Louis Spohr – Double Quartets Op. 65, 77, 87, 136 •
Johan Svendsen – String Octet in A major, Op. 3 == See also ==