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String Quartet No. 6, BB 119

Composer
Bartók Béla
Original / Hungarian title
VI. vonósnégyes, BB 119
Foreign language / English title
String Quartet No. 6, BB 119
Dedication
to the Kolisch Quartet
Year of composition
1939
Type
Chamber Music
Number of players
4
Instrumentation
strings: 2 vl., vla., vlc.
Duration
28 min
Movements, parts
1. Mesto - Piu mosso, pesante - Vivace
2. Mesto - Marcia
3. Mesto - Burletta
4. Mesto
Premiere information
20 January 1941, New York, USA; Kolisch Quartet
Publisher / Source
Boosey and Hawkes © 1941, B&H 8437
Available here!
Recordings
Naxos 8.557543-44, 2005 - Vermeer Quartet
ECM Records ECM 1727, 2001 - Zehetmair Quartett
 

Recordings

Title Publisher
Artek
Naxos
Divox
Naxos
Végh in his Mother Tongue BMC Records
Hungaroton