String Quartet No. 2 (Bartók)

String Quartet No. 2 (Bartók)

The String Quartet No. 2 by Béla Bartók was written between 1915, and October 1917 in Rákoskeresztúr in Hungary.

[
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#"Moderato"
#"Allegro molto capriccioso"
#"Lento"

In a letter to André Gertier, Bartók described the first movement as being in sonata form, the second as "a kind of rondo" and the third as "difficult to define" but possibly a sort of ternary form.

The work is influenced by Debussy. It was dedicated to the Waldbauer-Kerpely Quartet, and it was they who gave the piece its premiere on 3 March 1918 in Budapest. The work was first published in 1920 by Universal Edition.

References

* [http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?PageId=45&EventId=681 'Bartók Quartet No. 2'] , lecture by Roger Parker, followed by a performance by the Badke Quartet, Gresham College, 4th December 2007 (available for download as MP3 or MP4, as well as a text document)

External links

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