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. 4, BB 95


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
IV. vonósnégyes, BB 95
Foreign language / English title
String Quartet No. 4, BB 95
Dedication
to the Pro Arte Quartet
Year of composition
1928

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

Movements, parts
1. Allegro
2. Prestissimo, con sordino
3. Non troppo lento
4. Allegretto pizzicato
5. Allegro molto

Premiere information
20 March 1929, Budapest; Waldbauer-Kerpely Quartet
Publisher / Source
Universal Edition © 1929, 9788

Wiener Philharmonischer Verlag 166
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Recordings
Naxos 8.557543-44, 2005 - Vermeer Quartet
Artek AR-0053-2, 2010 - Euclid Quartet
 

Recordings

Title Publisher
ECM Records
Artek
Naxos
Naxos
Divox
Hungaroton