Composition database

This is the Composition Database of BMC, which includes information about works by composers that are either Hungarian or Hungarian by origin or live in Hungary.

Title of the work

String Quartet No. 2, Op. 39


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
II. vonósnégyes, Op. 39
Foreign language / English title
String Quartet No. 2, Op. 39
Year of composition
1991

Type
Chamber Music
Number of players
4
Instrumentation
2 vl., vla., vlc.
Duration
24 min

Movements, parts
1. Moderato - Allegro
2. lento - presto - Lento
3. Libero, quasi una cadenza - Allegro

Premiere information
25 January 1993, Paris; Bartók String Quartet
Publisher / Source
Eastern Publishing House, Budapest, 1994
Recordings
BMC CD 017, 1999 - Bartók Quartet: Péter Komlós, Géza Hargitai, Géza Németh, László Mező
1 min. sample
1 I. Moderato - Allegro
2 II. Lento - Presto - Lento
3 III. Libero, quasi una cadenza - Allegro
 

Recordings

Title Publisher
String quartets and rhapsodies BMC Records
BMC HMIC