For 10 points, identify this genre which includes Bedrich Smetana's
The fact that one piece in this genre was composed on a retreat in Hardanger may be why it quotes extensively from the composer's song "Spillemaend," which tells of the water spirit Hulder. Gerald Abraham argued that that piece influenced a different piece in this genre by Debussy written in the same key whose first movement contains harmonies inspired by modes from Gamelan Gong Kebyar. The second movement of a piece in this genre contains instructions for the (*) viola to play "quasi tromba" and uses a number of double-stops to imitate a folk accordion. Edvard Grieg and Claude Debussy each only completed one surviving piece in this genre, both of which are in G minor. A second movement polka representing the composer's youth is included in a semi-autobiographical piece in this genre, whose fourth movement contains a piercing high E on the first violin representing the composer's deafness. For 10 points, identify this genre which includes Bedrich Smetana's "From My Life."
The fact that one piece in this genre was composed on a retreat in Hardanger may be why it quotes extensively from the composer's song "Spillemaend," which tells of the water spirit Hulder.
string quartets