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String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10
Zoltán Kodály · 1882–1967 · Hungarian
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Level 8 · Professional — about LRSM / LTCL · RCM LRCM, with the parts evenly matched
Listen
- Ensemble
- String quartet
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 18 min
- Composed
- 1916–18
- Era
- 20th century
Notes
Two movements; first published in 1921
About this work
- Composed
- 1916-18
- Dedicated to
- Au quatuor Hongrois Waldbauer, Temesváry, Kornstein, Kerpely Waldbauer-Kerpely Quartet
- First performed
- 7 May 1918 in Budapest; Waldbauer–Kerpely-vonósnégyes
- Allegro
- Andante. Quasi recitativo - Allegro giocoso