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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 ]
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.
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.
However, these composers showed no interest in exploring the development of the string quartet as a medium. [2] The origins of the string quartet can be further traced back to the Baroque trio sonata, in which two solo instruments performed with a continuo section consisting of a bass instrument (such as the cello) and keyboard.
Clara Kathleen Rogers (1844–1931): Two string quartets, among them String quartet in D minor, Op. 5. Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924): One string quartet, in E minor, Op. 121 (1924). Ika Peyron (1845–1922): Humoresk in g minor for string quartet and a string quartet in three movements (1897). Marie Jaëll (1846–1925): One string quartet (1875).
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 .
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 ...