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The String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 35, is a piece of chamber music in three movements by Anton Arensky. Composed in 1894, it is unusually scored for violin, viola and two cellos. Arensky dedicated it to the memory of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky who had died the previous year.
The String Quartet No. 2 by Charles Ives is a work for string quartet written between 1907 and 1913. [1] It was premiered at McMillin Theatre, Columbia University in New York City on 11 May 1946, by a Juilliard School student ensemble. [ 2 ]
Of the Op. 18 string quartets, this one is the most grounded in 18th-century musical tradition. [1] According to Michael Steinberg, "In German-speaking countries, the graceful curve of the first violin's opening phrase has earned the work the nickname of Komplimentier-Quartett, which might be translated as 'quartet of bows and curtseys'." [2]
The String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13, was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1827. [1] Written when he was 18 years old, it was, despite its official number, Mendelssohn's first mature string quartet. One of Mendelssohn's most passionate works, the A minor Quartet is one of the earliest and most significant examples of cyclic form in music.
The String Quartet No. 2 in B ♭ major, B. 17, was probably composed by Antonín Dvořák in 1869, early in his compositional career. It was one of three (together with Nos. 3 , and 4 ) which Dvořák later believed he had destroyed after he had disposed of the scores.
The quartet is considerably influenced by the music of European avant-garde composers who were gaining celebrity at this time, particularly Pierre Boulez's Le Marteau sans maître. This is a much more fragmentary piece than his earlier quartet (1951): the four instruments play very individual roles and unpredictably bounce off one another.
Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68, was completed in September 1944 [1] in just nineteen days [2] in Ivanovo, [3] 300 kilometres north-east of Moscow. It was premiered by the Beethoven Quartet and is dedicated to the composer Vissarion Shebalin .
String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op. 36, by English composer Benjamin Britten, was written in 1945. It was composed in Snape, Suffolk and London, and completed on 14 October. The first performance was by the Zorian Quartet in the Wigmore Hall , London on 21 November 1945, in a concert to mark the exact 250th anniversary of the death of English ...