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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 ]
Two Cello String Quintet (1987) Violoncello and string quartet (Commissioned by Janos Starker) Ludwig van Beethoven Kreutzer Sonata arranged for String Quintet (Simrock, 1832) Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) String Quintet Op. 10 No. 1 in A major, G 265; String Quintet Op. 10 No. 2 in E flat major, G 266; String Quintet Op. 10 No. 3 in C minor, G 267
In the modern era, the string quartet played a key role in the development of Schoenberg (who added a soprano in his String Quartet No. 2), Bartók, and Shostakovich especially. After the Second World War, some composers, such as Messiaen questioned the relevance of the string quartet and avoided writing them.
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 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 .
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 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.