String Quartet No. 2 may refer to:
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String Quartet No. 2 (Babbitt) by Milton Babbitt
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String Quartet No. 2 (Bartók)
The String Quartet No. 2 in A minor by Béla Bartók was written between 1915 and October 1917 in Rákoskeresztúr in Hungary. It is one of six List of string quartets by Béla Bartók, string quartets by Bartok.
The work is in three movements:
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by Béla Bartók
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String Quartet No. 2 (Beethoven) by Ludwig van Beethoven
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String Quartet No. 2 (Bois), ''Pastorale V'' by
Rob du Bois
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String Quartet No. 2 (Borodin) by Alexander Borodin
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String Quartet No. 2 (Brahms) by Johannes Brahms
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String Quartet No. 2 (Bridge) by
Frank Bridge
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String Quartet No. 2 (Britten)
String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op. 36, by English composer Benjamin Britten, was written in 1945. It was composed in Snape, Suffolk and London, and completed on 14 October. The first performance was by the Zorian Quartet in the Wigmore Hall, ...
by Benjamin Britten
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String Quartet No. 2 (Carter) The Second String Quartet by American composer Elliott Carter was completed in 1959. This composition for string quartet was commissioned by the Stanley String Quartet of the University of Michigan, who decided not to play it upon seeing the scor ...
by Elliott Carter
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String Quartet No. 2 (Diamond) by
David Diamond
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String Quartet No. 2 (Dvořák) The String Quartet No. 2 in B major, B. 17, was probably composed by Antonín Dvořák
Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czechs, Czech composer. Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects ...
by Antonín Dvořák
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String Quartet No. 2 (Enescu)
The String Quartet No. 2 in G major, Op. 22, No. 2, is a chamber music work by the Romanian composer George Enescu, composed mainly between 1950 and 1951, though it has a lengthy pre-history and received a number of revisions in 1952 and possibl ...
by George Enescu
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String Quartet No. 2 (Ferneyhough) by
Brian Ferneyhough
Brian John Peter Ferneyhough (; born 16 January 1943) is an English composer. Ferneyhough is typically considered the central figure of the New Complexity movement. Ferneyhough has taught composition at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and ...
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String Quartet No. 2 (Glass)
String Quartet No. 2, also known by its other title ''Company'', is a string quartet by American composer Philip Glass. This composition was finished in January 1983 in New York City, and was expected to be a piece of instrumental music for Fred ...
by Philip Glass
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String Quartet No. 2 (Haas), ''From the Monkey Mountains'' by Pavel Haas
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String Quartet No. 2 (Halffter) ''Mémoires'' by
Cristóbal Halffter
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String Quartet No. 2 (Haydn) by Joseph Haydn
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String Quartet No. 2 (Hill) by Alfred Hill
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String Quartet No. 2 (Janáček), ''Intimate Letters'' by Leoš Janáček
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String Quartet No. 2 (Kernis) String Quartet No. 2, ''Musica Instrumentalis'' (1997)Scherer, Barrymore Laurence (2007). ''A History of American Classical Music'', p.221. . is a string quartet by Aaron Jay Kernis (b. 1960), inspired by renaissance and baroque dances, composed fo ...
by Aaron Jay Kernis
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String Quartet No. 2 (Kirchner) by
Leon Kirchner
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String Quartet No. 2 (Ligeti)
The Hungarian composer György Ligeti published three string quartets: two string quartets proper (1953–54, 1968) and a student piece from 1950 published toward the end of his life. The first two quartets represent his early period, inspired by ...
by György Ligeti
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String Quartet No. 2 (McCabe) by
John McCabe John McCabe may refer to:
*John McCabe (composer) (1939–2015), British composer and classical pianist
*John McCabe (writer) (1920–2005), Shakespearean scholar and biographer
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Christopher John McCabe (born 20 Oc ...
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String Quartet No. 2 (Marco), ''Espejo desierto'' by
Tomás Marco
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String Quartet No. 2 (Mendelssohn) by Felix Mendelssohn
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String Quartet No. 2 (Milhaud), Op. 16, by
Darius Milhaud
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String Quartet No. 2 (Mozart) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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String Quartet No. 2 (Nielsen) Carl Nielsen's String Quartet No. 2 in F minor or Quartet for Two Violins, Viola and Cello in F minor, Opus 5, was composed in 1890, partly in Denmark but mostly in Germany where the composer was travelling on a stipend. The second of Nielsen's f ...
by Carl Nielsen
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String Quartet No. 2 (Maconchy) by
Elizabeth Maconchy
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String Quartet No. 2 (Oswald) The String Quartet
The term string quartet can refer to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them. Many composers from the mid-18th century onwards wrote string quartets. The associated musical ensemble consist ...
by Henrique Oswald
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String Quartet No. 2 (Persichetti), Op. 24, by
Vincent Persichetti
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String Quartet No. 2 (Piston) String Quartet No. 2 by Walter Piston is a Chamber music, chamber-music work composed in 1935 in music, 1935.
History
Piston's second string quartet was composed two years after his String Quartet No. 1 (Piston), First Quartet and, like it, was pre ...
by Walter Piston
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String Quartet No. 2 (Porter) by
Quincy Porter
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String Quartet No. 2 (Prokofiev) by Sergei Prokofiev
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String Quartet No. 2 (Revueltas), ''Magueyes'' by Silvestre Revueltas
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String Quartet No. 2 (Rihm) by
Wolfgang Rihm
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String Quartet No. 2 (Rouse) by Christopher Rouse
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String Quartet No. 2 (Schoenberg) The Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg published four string quartets, distributed over his lifetime: String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7 (1905), String Quartet No. 2 in F minor, Op. 10 (1908), String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30 (1927), and the Strin ...
by Arnold Schoenberg
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String Quartet No. 2 (Schubert) by Franz Schubert
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String Quartet No. 2 (Shostakovich)
Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Opus number, Op. 68, was composed in 1944 in music, 1944 in just nineteen days in Ivanovo, 300 kilometres north-east of Moscow. It was premiered by the Beethoven Quartet and is dedicated to t ...
by Dmitri Shostakovich
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String Quartet No. 2 (Smetana)
Bedřich Smetana's String Quartet No. 2 in D minor is a chamber composition for string quartet. It is Smetana's last quartet, written between 1882 and 1883.
Background
In June 1882, after composing the monumental cycle ''Má vlast'', the operas ...
by Bedřich Smetana
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String Quartet No. 2 (Tchaikovsky) The String Quartet No. 2 in F major, Op. 22, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was composed between December 1873 and January 1874. It premiered on 22 March 1874.
In October 1874, Tchaikovsky got on record as considering it his finest work: "I regard i ...
by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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String Quartet No. 2 (Tippett) String Quartet No. 2 may refer to:
* String Quartet No. 2 (Babbitt) by Milton Babbitt
* String Quartet No. 2 (Bartók) by Béla Bartók
* String Quartet No. 2 (Beethoven) by Ludwig van Beethoven
* String Quartet No. 2 (Bois), ''Pastorale V'' by ...
by
Michael Tippett
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String Quartet No. 2 (Villa-Lobos) by Heitor Villa-Lobos
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