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 string quartets by Bartok.
The work is in three movements:
In a letter to André Gertier, Bartók de ...
by Béla Bartók
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String Quartet No. 2 (Beethoven)
The String Quartet No. 2 in G major, Op. 18, No. 2 (actually his third), was written by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1798 and 1800 and published in 1801, dedicated to Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz.
It consists of four movements:
# Allegro (G maj ...
by Ludwig van Beethoven
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String Quartet No. 2 (Bois), ''Pastorale V'' by
Rob du Bois
Rob du Bois (28 May 1934 – 28 August 2013) was a Dutch composer, pianist, and jurist.
Background and education
Rob (Robert Louis) du Bois was born in Amsterdam. His French ancestry can be seen from his name, and he maintained a sympathy for the ...
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String Quartet No. 2 (Borodin)
The String Quartet No. 2 is a string quartet in D major written by Alexander Borodin in 1881. It was dedicated to his wife Ekaterina Protopova. Some scholars, such as Borodin's biographer Serge Dianin, suggest that the quartet was a 20th anniversa ...
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
Frank Bridge (26 February 187910 January 1941) was an English composer, violist and conductor.
Life
Bridge was born in Brighton, the ninth child of William Henry Bridge (1845–1928), a violin teacher and variety theatre conductor, formerly a ...
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String Quartet No. 2 (Britten)
String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Opus number, 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 Wi ...
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 score ...
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 ( ; ; 8September 18411May 1904) was a Czech composer. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music o ...
by Antonín Dvořák
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String Quartet No. 2 (Enescu) 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 Ne ...
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
Cristóbal Halffter Jiménez-Encina (24 March 1930 – 23 May 2021) was a Spanish classical composer. He was the nephew of two other composers, Rodolfo and Ernesto Halffter, and is regarded as the most important Spanish composer of the gen ...
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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) by Aaron Jay Kernis
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String Quartet No. 2 (Kirchner) by
Leon Kirchner
Leon Kirchner (January 24, 1919 – September 17, 2009) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he won a Pulitzer Pr ...
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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 B ...
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
*Christopher John McCabe
Christopher John McCabe (born 20 Oc ...
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String Quartet No. 2 (Marco), ''Espejo desierto'' by
Tomás Marco
Tomás Marco Aragón (born 12 September 1942) is a Spanish composer and writer on music.
Life and work
Marco was born in Madrid where he later studied violin and composition, while at the same time pursuing the study of law (he received his lic ...
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String Quartet No. 2 (Mendelssohn) The String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Opus number, Op. 13, was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1827. Written when he was 18 years old, it was, despite its official number, Mendelssohn's first mature string quartet. One of Mendelssohn's most passiona ...
by Felix Mendelssohn
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String Quartet No. 2 (Milhaud), Op. 16, by
Darius Milhaud
Darius Milhaud (, ; 4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as ''The Group of Six''—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His composition ...
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String Quartet No. 2 (Mozart) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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String Quartet No. 2 (Nielsen) by Carl Nielsen
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String Quartet No. 2 (Maconchy) by
Elizabeth Maconchy
Dame Elizabeth Violet Maconchy LeFanu (; 19 March 1907 – 11 November 1994) was an English-Irish composer. She is considered to be one of the finest composers Great Britain and Ireland have produced.
Biography
Elizabeth Violet Maconchy was b ...
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String Quartet No. 2 (Oswald) by Henrique Oswald
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String Quartet No. 2 (Persichetti), Op. 24, by
Vincent Persichetti
Vincent Ludwig Persichetti (June 6, 1915 – August 14, 1987) was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, he was known for his integration of various new ideas in musical composition into his own work ...
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String Quartet No. 2 (Piston) by Walter Piston
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String Quartet No. 2 (Porter) by
Quincy Porter
William Quincy Porter (February 7, 1897 – November 12, 1966) was an American composer and teacher of european classical music, classical music.
Biography
Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he went to Yale University where his teachers included H ...
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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
Wolfgang Rihm (; 13 March 1952 – 27 July 2024) was a German composer of contemporary classical music and an academic teacher based in Karlsruhe. He was an influential post-war European composer, as "one of the most original and independent mus ...
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String Quartet No. 2 (Rouse) by Christopher Rouse
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String Quartet No. 2 (Schoenberg) by Arnold Schoenberg
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String Quartet No. 2 (Schubert) by Franz Schubert
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String Quartet No. 2 (Shostakovich) by Dmitri Shostakovich
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String Quartet No. 2 (Smetana) by Bedřich Smetana
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String Quartet No. 2 (Tchaikovsky) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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String Quartet No. 2 (Tippett) by
Michael Tippett
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998) was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War. In his lifetime he was sometimes ranked with his contemporary Benjamin Britten as o ...
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String Quartet No. 2 (Villa-Lobos) by Heitor Villa-Lobos
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String Quartet in A minor (Walton), by William Walton
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