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

Quartetto per archi, No. 2 / String Quartet, No. 2


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Quartetto per archi, No. 2 / II. vonósnégyes
Foreign language / English title
Quartetto per archi, No. 2 / String Quartet, No. 2
Year of composition
1937

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

Movements, parts
1. Allegro
2. Andante
3. Presto

Premiere information
1937, SIMC Festival, Paris; New Hungarian String Quartet
Publisher / Source
Edizioni Suvini Zerboni - Milano, 4882 (pocket score on sale); 4842 (on sale)
Available here!
Recordings
Hungaroton HCD-32691, 2011 - Ensemble Des Equilibres