Alberto Evaristo Ginastera (1916-1983)

Quatuor à cordes n° 2 (1958)

  • General information
    • Composition date: 1958
      Revision dates: 1968
    • Duration: 27 mn
    • Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes, Barry
    • Opus: 26
    • Commission: Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation
    • Dedication: à Harold Spivacke
Detailed formation
  • violin, second violin, viola, cello

Premiere information

  • Date: 19 April 1958
    Location:

    États-Unis, Washington, DC, Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress, Premier Festival Interaméricain de Musique


    Performers:

    le Quatuor Juilliard.

Table of contents

  1. Allegro rustico
  2. Adagio angoscioso
  3. Presto magico
  4. Libero e rapsodico
  5. Furioso