String Quartets Nos 1 and 2 - Softcover

Bartok, Bela

9780486437996: String Quartets Nos 1 and 2

Softcover

ISBN 10: 048643799X ISBN 13: 9780486437996

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc., 2004

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The six string quartets of BTla Bart=k, widely held to be the most important quartets since Beethoven, constitute one of the great monuments of twentieth-century music. This outstanding new volume brings together the first two of Bart=k's chamber masterpieces. The stirring first quartet, written in 1908, captures the composer's great stylistic rebirth, as the intense Romanticism of the opening movement gives way to a propulsive finale that reflects the composer's growing interest in Hungarian folk music. The second quartet, written during World War I, finds Bart=k combining boldly disparate influences into a work of astonishing force and originality. Dover Original compilation of Quatuor - cordes, op. 7, originally published by R=zsavolgyi, Budapest, 1911, and Streichquartett II, originally published by Universal Edition, Vienna, 1920.

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Acclaimed as the most important quartets since Beethoven, the six string quartets of B�la Bart�k offer a summation of the composer's compositional style and development, and they constitute one of the great monuments of twentieth-century music. This outstanding new volume unites the first two of Bart�k's chamber masterpieces.
The stirring first quartet, written in 1908, captures the composer's great stylistic rebirth, as the intense Romanticism of the opening movement gives way to a propulsive finale reflecting the composer's growing interest in Hungarian folk music. The second quartet, written during World War I, finds Bart�k's creativity unimpeded by wartime privations. The three-movement work echoes the meditative qualities of the first quartet in its outer movements, but its lively central movement suggests the traditional music of North Africa. A combination of boldly disparate influences, it remains a work of astonishing force and originality.

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