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Bartók Béla: String Quartets Nos. 1-6. Critical Commentary

Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition, vol. 30

complete edition

Edited by Nakahara, Yusuke – Németh Zsombor – Somfai László
Setting: String Quartet
Series: Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition
Genre: Complete Edition
Period: 20th Century
Language: English
Length: 316 pages
Published: February 2023
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag - Editio Musica Budapest
Item number: 15030
Other reference: HN 6207
ISMN: 9790080150306
Bartók's six string quartets belong to the gems of the genre, all of them being regarded as classics of 20th-century music. The Critical Commentary volume that accompanies the critical edition of the six works (published in vol. 29) not only presents the sources of the works (from sketches through printed editions and Bartók's corrected copies) and documents the discrepancies between the sources and all editorial decisions but, based on the entire source material, it also reveals the compositional process in the greatest detail possible through verbal notes and annotated diplomatic transcriptions. The transcriptions (that constitute the half of the volume) offer an especially exciting insight into the genesis of these works. In addition, the edition includes Bartók's analysis of String Quartets Nos. 4 and 5 in the original languages, and his sketch for an unmaterialized seventh quartet.
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