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String Quartet

Composer
Horváth Barnabás
Original / Hungarian title
Vonósnégyes
Foreign language / English title
String Quartet
Year of composition
1990
Type
Chamber Music
Number of players
4
Instrumentation
strings: 2 vl., vla., vlc.
Duration
14 min
Movements, parts
1. Alla marcia
2. Comodo
3. Allegro giocoso
Premiere information
15 May 1990, Óbuda Arts Center, Zichy Palace, Budapest; Erzsébet Rácz (vl.), László Paulik (vl.), Balázs Bozzai (vla.), Ildikó Rönkös (vlc.) (Version from 1990)

22 May 1991, Small Hall, Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest; István Kádár (vl.), Imola Éva Rajk (vl.), Ida Kovács (vla.), Csaba Kőrös (vlc.) (Version from 1991)

27 January 1996, Concert Hall, Pesti Vígadó, Budapest; Auer String Quartet: Gábor Sipos (vl.), György Gulyás Nagy (vla.), Judit Szabó (vlc.) (Final version)
Publisher / Source
MS
Recordings
Hungarian Radio 1990/91, Somogyi String Quartet: Péter Somogyi, Éva Viniczai, Balázs Tóth, László Pólus
Privat recording 2003, Fricsay String Quartet
Remarks, other info
Composed: 1990, revised: 1991, 1995

1st prize winner in 1993 at the "Music of the Future" Composer Competition in Szeged, Hungary