String Quartet No. 2 (Schubert)

The String Quartet No. 2 (D 32) in C major was composed by Franz Schubert in 1812.

Movements

Presto (C major)
Andante (A minor)
Menuetto (C major, with Trio in F major)
Allegro con spirito (C minor – C major)

The autograph was widely scattered, and hence the first edition in the Alte Gesamt-Ausgabe only gives the first and third movements, as well as the second half of the finale in the critical report. The remainder was only discovered much later (in the Otto Taussig collection at Lund University in Malmo) by Maurice J. E. Brown, who edited the complete work for publication.^[1]

References

^ Maurice J. E. Brown. New, Old and Rediscovered Schubert Manuscripts, in Music & Letters, Vol. 38, No. 4 (October 1957), pp. 359-368

Sources

Franz Schubert's Works:
- Series V: Streichquartette edited by Joseph Hellmesberger and Eusebius Mandyczewski. Breitkopf & Härtel, 1890
- Series XXII: Revisionsbericht, Volume 1: Instrumentalmusik
Otto Erich Deutsch (and others). Schubert Thematic Catalogue (several editions), No. 32.
New Schubert Edition, Series VI, Volume 3: Streichquartette I edited by Martin Chusid. Bärenreiter, 1979.

External links

String Quartet No. 2: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project

[1] Maurice J. E. Brown. New, Old and Rediscovered Schubert Manuscripts, in Music & Letters, Vol. 38, No. 4 (October 1957), pp. 359-368

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v t e Chamber music by Franz Schubert
Duos	For violin and piano Sonat(in)as D 384, 385 and 408 Duo in A major, D 574 Rondo in B minor, D 895 Fantasy in C major, D 934 Arpeggione Sonata, D 821
Trios	Sonatensatz for piano trio, D 28 String Trios D 111A, 471 and 581 Notturno for piano trio, D 897 Piano Trio No. 1, D 898 Piano Trio No. 2, D 929 "The Shepherd on the Rock", D 965
String Quartets	No. 1, D 18 No. 2, D 32 No. 3, D 36 No. 4, D 46 No. 5, D 68 No. 6, D 74 No. 7, D 94 Quartettsatz, D 103 No. 8, D 112 No. 9, D 173 No. 10 (Haushaltung), D 87 No. 11, D 353 No. 12 (Quartettsatz), D 703 No. 13 (Rosamunde), D 804 No. 14 (Death and the Maiden), D 810 No. 15, D 887
Other	Rondo for violin and strings, D 438 Adagio and Rondo Concertante, D 487 Trout Quintet, D 667 Octet, D 803 String Quintet, D 956
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