A negyedik negyedikje : Bartók Béla Allegretto, pizzicato tételének keletkezéséről és korai előadás- történetéről

Németh, Zsombor (2022) A negyedik negyedikje : Bartók Béla Allegretto, pizzicato tételének keletkezéséről és korai előadás- történetéről. MAGYAR ZENE, 60 (1). pp. 58-75. ISSN 0025-0384

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Abstract

The fourth of the fourth : On the Genesis and the Early Performances of the Allegretto, pizzicato Movement of Béla Bartók’s String Quartet No. 4. As already pointed out by László Somfai in the late 1980s, Béla Bartók’s first fully developed five- movement realization of the so- called ‘bridge’ or ‘palindrome’ form was only an afterthought, a further development of a composition originally intended as a cycle of four movements only. As also discussed briefly by Somfai, the evolution of the Allegretto, pizzicato movement itself had distinct stages. A recently surfaced source further clarifies these compositional phases, among other things it confirms the existence of a 140 bars long version without a proper conclusion, which, at one point, the composer considered as a definitive version (for which only the ending needed to be composed) and tried out with the Waldbauer–Kerpely Quartet. The present article re- examines the compositional process of Bartók’s String Quartet No. 4 with an emphasis on its additional fourth movement and discusses the different compositional phases of the Allegretto, pizzicato.

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