String Quartets

Name: String Quartets
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ISBN: 9780486437996

ISBN-10: 048643799X

ISBN-13: 9780486437996

Edition: N/A

Authors: Bela Bartok

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Acclaimed as the most important quartets since Beethoven, the six string quartets of Beacute;la Bartoacute;k offer a summation of the composer's compositional style and development, and they constitute one of the great monuments of twentieth-century music. This outstanding new volume unites the first two of Bartoacute;k'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 reflecting the composer's growing interest in Hungarian folk music. The second quartet, written during World War I, finds Bartoacute;k combining boldly disparate influences…

Book details

List price: $12.95
Publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/12/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 8.25" wide x 10.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English



String Quartet no. 1, op. 7 (1908-9)


[original title page]


Lento


Allegretto


Allegro vivace


String Quartet no. 2, op. 17 (1914-17)


[original title page]


Moderato


Allegro molto capriccioso


Lento