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. 176


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
II. vonósnégyes, Op. 176
Foreign language / English title
String Quartet No. 2, Op. 176
Subtitle
In memory of Béla Bartók
Year of composition
1981

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

Commissioned by
the Bartók Quartet and the National Philharmonic Society
Publisher / Source
Legend Art Publishing
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Recordings
Hungaroton SLPX-12139, 1984 - Bartók Quartet