After some thirty bars of this introduction the first movement proper, an allegro, begins with the following theme, in which it must be admitted there is a certain excess of the semiquaver movement, used in a fragmentary manner as an accompaniment to the leading ideas:—
Ippolitoff-Ivanoff, Op. 13.
This is followed by the second theme, a somewhat quaint people’s song kind of tune, played by the first violin and viola in octaves, the second violin keeping up the semiquaver rhythm just referred to, and the ’cello playing quavers pizzicato.
Ippolitoff-Ivanoff, Op. 13.
