Partitions Bela Bartók pour ensemble d'instruments à cordes

Le quatuor le plus long et le plus complexe des six quatuors à cordes de Bartók fut composé durant l’été 1934 en réponse à une commande bien dotée de la prestigieuse Elisabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundat...

Bartόk commença son 6e Quatuor à cordes au cours de l’été 1939, lors de son séjour chez Paul Sacher, dans le village idyllique suisse de Saanen, avant que l’imminence de la déclaration de guerre ne le...

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HPS 27

To make myself clear: This is not programme music, it does not require an explanation attached to it; it speaks for itself. What it wishes to say it does by means of pure music. But it does say someth...

The fourth string quartet embodies that moment in Bartók's art in which the composer, surpassing the concentrated and retrospective third quartet, reaches a summit for the first time and casts his gaz...

Bartok's String Quartet No. 5 was commissioned by the formidable Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, leading patron of chamber music in the U. S. in the first half of the 20th century. Bartok is alleged to ha...