Bartk: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2

• Composer: Bla Bartk (1881-1945)
• Format: Full Score – Format guide
• Instrumentation: String Quartet (Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Cello)
• Binding:
• ISBN: 9780486437996
• Size: 8.4 x 11.0 inches
• Pages: None

Description

The six string quartets of Bla Bartk, widely held to be the most important quartets since Beethoven, constitute one of the great monuments of twentieth-century music. This outstanding new volume brings together the first two of Bartk’s chamber masterpieces. The stirring first quartet, written in 1908, captures the composer’s great stylistic rebirth, as the intense Romanticism of the opening movement gives way to a propulsive finale that reflects the composer’s growing interest in Hungarian folk music. The second quartet, written during World War I, finds Bartk combining boldly disparate influences into a work of astonishing force and originality. Dover Original compilation of Quatuor cordes, Op. 7, originally published by Rzsavolgyi, Budapest, 1911, and String Quartet II, originally published by Universal Edition, Vienna, 1920.

Works:

• String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7, Sz. 40, BB 52
• String Quartet No. 2, Op. 17, Sz. 67, BB 75