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Compositions by Béla Bartók

11 compositions

Composition M

Catalog

Comp'd

Duration

Publisher

Notes

Quartet

BB 7/5

1896

In B-flat major; originally designated Op. 10 of an early series; lost

Quartet

BB 7/6

1896

In C minor; originally designated Op. 11 of an early series; lost

Quartet [1898]

BB 17

1898

In F major

Scherzo in Sonata Form

BB 19/1

1900

In F minor

Quartet No. 1

BB 52; Op. 7

1909

Rózsavölgyi; Boosey & Hawkes

Quartet No. 2

BB 75; Op. 17

1917

Universal Edition; Boosey & Hawkes

Revised incompletely in the 1940s

Dedicated to / written for:

Waldbauer-Kerpely Quartet

Quartet No. 3

BB 93

1927

Universal Edition; Boosey & Hawkes

Dedicated to / written for:

Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia

Additional references:

Manuscript excerpt

Quartet No. 4

BB 95

1928

Universal Edition; Boosey & Hawkes

Dedicated to / written for:

Pro Arte Quartet

Quartet No. 5

BB 110

1934

Universal Edition; Boosey & Hawkes

Commissioned by:

Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge

Dedicated to / written for:

Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge

Quartet No. 6

BB 119

1939

Boosey & Hawkes

Commissioned by:

Zoltán Székely, Hungarian Quartet

Dedicated to / written for:

Written for the Hungarian Quartet, dedicated to the Kolisch Quartet

Quartet

BB 129b

1945?

Incomplete; from 1944 or 1945

Commissioned by:

Ralph Hawkes

Additional references:

Somfai 1996