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String Quartet No. 2 Op. 17 Study Score String Quartet - Sheet Music

Bartók's Second String Quartet was composed – with several long interruptions – between 1915 and 1918, after he had spent several years almost solely devoted to collecting folk music. The melody and rhythms of the riotous middle movement “Allegro, molto capriccioso” provide impressive testimony of how his research trips had taken him as far as North Africa. The first edition of this quartet, published in Vienna in 1920, contains a conspicuous number of errors that were only partially corrected in a later revision undertaken by Bartók. As late as the 1940s he noted changes in his personal copy of the score that have never previously appeared inprint. These late changes by Bartók are taken into account in this definitive edition of the string quartets supervised by Bartók scholar László Somfai, with problematic passages in the sources carefully documented. It is the first-ever Urtext edition of this work.

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Instrument:
Cello Viola Violin
Ensembles:
String Quartet
Genres:
Classical
Publishers:
G. Henle
Series:
Henle Study Scores Henle Urtext
UPC:
196288141884
Format:
Study Score Collection / Songbook
Item types:
Physical
Usages:
School and Community
Size:
9.5x7.0x0.183 inches
Number of Pages:
54
Shipping Weight:
0.36 pounds

String Quartet (Study Score)

SKU: HL.51487422

Study Score. Composed by Bela Bartó and k. Edited by Lá, Somfai, and szló. Henle Study Scores. Classical. Softcover. 54 pages. G. Henle #HN7422. Published by G. Henle (HL.51487422).

UPC: 196288141884. 9.5x7.0x0.183 inches.

Bartók's Second String Quartet was composed – with several long interruptions – between 1915 and 1918, after he had spent several years almost solely devoted to collecting folk music. The melody and rhythms of the riotous middle movement “Allegro, molto capriccioso” provide impressive testimony of how his research trips had taken him as far as North Africa. The first edition of this quartet, published in Vienna in 1920, contains a conspicuous number of errors that were only partially corrected in a later revision undertaken by Bartók. As late as the 1940s he noted changes in his personal copy of the score that have never previously appeared inprint. These late changes by Bartók are taken into account in this definitive edition of the string quartets supervised by Bartók scholar László Somfai, with problematic passages in the sources carefully documented. It is the first-ever Urtext edition of this work.

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Series:
Henle Study Scores Henle Urtext
Instrument:
Strings Cello Strings Viola Strings Violin
Ensemble:
String Quartet
Publisher:
G. Henle