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Fact of the Day : Which piece of music is nicknamed the Frog Quartet? (from The Oxford Companion to Music)

‘Frog’ Quartet (Froschquartett). Nickname of Haydn's String Quartet in D major op. 50 no. 6 (1787), which has a ‘croaking’ theme in the finale.

How to cite this entry: "‘Frog’ Quartet" The Oxford Companion to Music. Ed. Alison Latham. Oxford University Press, 2002. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. 21 January 2012