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It received its first performance in private by the Ondricek Quartet, Prague, on 16 November 1932. It is of over 45 minutes' duration, making it Dvorak's second-longest chamber work. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The parts and score were included in the Souborné vydání díla (complete critical edition), series 4, volume 5, dated 1962 [ 4 ] and published ...
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 ]
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. Composed in 1894, it is unusually scored for violin, viola and two cellos.
A string quartet in performance. From left to right: violin 1, violin 2, viola, cello. The early history of the string quartet is in many ways the history of the development of the genre by the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn.
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.
The String Quartet No. 2 is a string quartet in D major written by Alexander Borodin in 1881. It was dedicated to his wife Ekaterina Protopova. Some scholars, such as Borodin's biographer Serge Dianin, suggest that the quartet was a 20th anniversary gift and that it has a program evoking the couple's first meeting in Heidelberg. [1]
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.