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Los seis cuartetos de cuerda de Béla Bartók, compuestos entre 1908 y 1940, figuran entre los hitos del género en el siglo XX. Este estuche reúne las obras en seis prácticas partituras de bolsillo de p...

Béla Bartók's six string quartets, composed between 1908 and 1940, are 20th-century milestones of the genre. His First String Quartet is closely linked to his unhappy love for the violinist Stefi Geye...

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 r...

The String Quartet no. 3 is the shortest of Béla Bartók's six Quartets, and was also composed in a remarkably short time. He wrote the score in September 1927, and in the following December it won him...

Even before his String Quartet no. 3 appeared in print in 1929, Bartók was already working on a fourth in the summer of 1928. This five-movement work is arranged symmetrically around a highly expressi...

The longest and at the same time most complex of Bartók’s six string quartets was composed in the summer of 1934 as a well-paid commission for the renowned Elisabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation in Was...

Bartók comenzó a trabajar en su Sexto Cuarteto de cuerda en el verano de 1939 como invitado de Paul Sacher en el idílico pueblo de montaña suizo de Saanen, antes de que el inminente estallido de la gu...