Baerenreiter Verlag String Quartet No. 2 in B-flat Major B 17 - Dvorak - Set of Parts - String Quartet String Quartet No. 2 in B-flat Major B 17 - Dvorak - Set of Parts - String Quartet

Composer: Antonin Dvorak
Editor: Antonin Pokorny / Karel Solc
Format: Set of parts
Instrumentation: String quartet
Scoring: Violins (2), Viola, Violoncello

Like Dvorak's third and fourth quartets (in D major and E minor respectively), String Quartet No. 2 in B-flat major was probably composed between 1868 and 1870, when the young and still inexperienced composer was openly responding to stimuli from his musical surroundings and excitedly adopting new compositional techniques. All three quartets were long considered lost; it was even said that Dvorak destroyed them. But copies of the parts resurfaced in the archive of the Prague Conservatory and have served as the principal source for this new publication.
This edition presents the musical text from the "Antonin Dvorak Complete Edition", together with a new foreword by Hartmut Schick.