String Quartet No. 2 (Bartók)
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The String Quartet No. 2 by Béla Bartók was written between 1915, and October 1917 in Rákoskeresztúr in Hungary.
The work is in three movements:
- Moderato
- Allegro molto capriccioso
- Lento
In a letter to André Gertier, Bartók described the first movement as being in sonata form, the second as "a kind of rondo" and the third as "difficult to define" but possibly a sort of ternary form.
The work is dedicated to the Waldbauer-Kerpely Quartet, and it was they who gave the piece its premiere on 3 March 1918 in Budapest. The work was first published in 1920 by Universal Edition.
| String Quartets by Béla Bartók |
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| String Quartet No. 1 (1909) | String Quartet No. 2 (1915-17) | String Quartet No. 3 (1927) | String Quartet No. 4 (1928) | String Quartet No. 5 (1934) | String Quartet No. 6 (1939) |
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