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Background: Béla Bartók’s six quartets are considered the most important cycle of works in the genre after those of Beethoven. Like Beethoven, the form of the quartet spanned Bartók’s creative life, across the years 1908–39. The First Quartet shows the young composer influenced by Max Reger, Wagner and late Beethoven – composers who also exerted an influence on Bartók’s contemporary Arnold Schoenberg’s First Quartet, a work Bartók knew well. The Second Quartet saw the mature Bartókian style emerge – repeated fragments within the octave, scales without a fixed final note, and the unmistakable sound of Hungarian folk music. The sixth and final work is haunted by grief, personal and political. Bartók was deeply unsettled and alarmed by the political situation in Europe and the rise of the Nazis, and his mother fell ill at the time of this quartet’s composition; he decided to leave his native Hungary for America, from where he would never return. |
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COMPOSER: Bela Bartok |
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded 1995-1998 - Oct-2010 5 star BBC Music Mag. |
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