String Quartet No.1

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In a letter to violinist Stefi Geyer, Bartók described the opening movement of this quartet as his "funeral dirge." The quartet's first four notes -- two descending minor sixths played imitatively by the first and second violins -- are nearly identical to the opening motif of the second, giocoso, movement of the Violin... read more

Recorded versions of this work

1988 • 3 tracks • 28m

Emerson String Quartet

2002 • 3 tracks • 30m

Alban Berg Quartett

1988 • 3 tracks • 32m

The Lindsays

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