String Quartets

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Here are the rest of Boris Tchaikovsky's quartets:

Boris Alexandrovich TCHAIKOVSKY
String Quartet no. 3 (1967)
Tchaikovsky, B. - String Quartet no. 3 (1967).pdf
String Quartet no. 4 (1972)
Tchaikovsky, B. - String Quartet no. 4 (1972).pdf
String Quartet no. 5 (1974)
Tchaikovsky, B. - String Quartet no. 5 (1974).pdf
String Quartet no. 6 (1976)
Tchaikovsky, B. - String Quartet no. 6 (1976).pdf
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caostotale wrote:...and one more Soviet-era quartet tonight. It's hard to figure when this quartet was composed. The publication date on the work is 1947, but Gaigerova passed away in 1944. As with many of her later works, the music explores folk themes from the far-eastern regions of Soviet Russia (in addition to Yakutian themes, her work represented the folk musics of Bashkir, Buryat, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Tatar, Uzbek, and Mongolian peoples).

For my own part, this was a landmark etude in how not to damage an extremely old, brittle, and oddly-shaped miniature score.

Enjoy,

Varvara GAIGEROVA
String Quartet no. 2, 'on Yakutian folk themes', op. 17
http://www.mediafire.com/?csomva6largjs32

(the piece has quite a few pages and was just large enough to be too big for attachment).
Does anyone have any idea where to find her symphonies, or anything else (besides the viola piece and piano works)?
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caostotale wrote:Here's a quartet from the republic of Georgia that's not owned by Ted Turner. Alongside Tsintsadze, Nasidze is one of that region's finest string quartet composers. This piece (and quite a few others) can be streamed for free at the following excellent website:

http://www.georgian-music.com/free_music/nasidze.php

Sulkhan Ivanovich NASIDZE
String Quartet no. 1 (1968)
Nasidze - String Quartet no. 1 (1968).pdf
This is extremely impressive.
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As a follow-up to relative's post in the Soviet piano thread:

Bio at:
http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... bih%3D1059

Mikhail Pavlovich ZIV
String Quartet no. 2 (1955)
Ziv - String Quartet no. 2 (1955).pdf
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Bio at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlata_Tkach

Another set of short string quartet pieces by this composer can be found at:
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=46&p=25673&hilit=z ... ach#p25673

Zlata Moiseyevna TKACH (Moldova)
Pieces (5), for string quartet; 1. Betuta, 2. Womens' Dance, 3. Humoresque, 4. Ballade, 5. Mens' Dance
Tkach - Pieces (5), for string quartet.pdf
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I couldn't find biographical info on this composer. The mugham form is usually associated with Azerbaijani music, though I've seen the composer referred to as 'Russian'. This is yet another work that was published in a Soviet compilation volume in the late 1980s, ever a good source of obscure works by nearly-unknown composers.

Tamara Sagibovna IBRAGIMOVA
String Quartet, 'Mugham' (1984)
Ibragimova - String Quartet, 'Mugham' (1984).pdf
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Another pair of quartets by Golubev...

Yevgeny Kirillovich GOLUBEV
String Quartets 8 & 9, op. 57 & 58 (probably composed in 1970-71, published in 1972)
Golubev - String Quartets 8-9, op. 57, 58 (1970-72).pdf
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Akin to Prokofiev, Kabalevsky composed only two string quartets during his career. I've not yet happened upon the first quartet, which like many other Russian works of the 1920s-30s, was published as a miniature score by Universal-Edition A.G. Like the Mosolov quartet, that one is considerably rare.

Dmitri Borisovich KABALEVSKY
String Quartet no. 2 (in g-minor), op. 44 (1945)
Kabalevsky - String Quartet no. 2 (in g minor), op. 44 (1945).pdf
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Here's a folk-inspired quartet work by a Georgian (or Abkhaz) composer who studied under Myaskovsky. According to the bio, he penned a total of six numbered quartets over the course of his career. I'm not sure if this 1938 publication counts as the first of these. Nos. 2 and 3 are listed as available (though rare) on Worldcat. The rest I've not seen anywhere. Based on the time period, I would assume that, if published at all, they were published by the Georgian SSR state publisher like Tsintsadze's and Gabichvadze's quartets. Bio at:

http://translate.google.com/translate?d ... %25D0%25B5

Nikolai (Niko) Vasilyevich NARIMANIDZE (Abkhazia, Georgia)
Rhapsody, on an Abkhaz folk melody, for string quartet (1938)
Narimanidze - Rhapsody, on an Abkhaz folk melody, for string quartet (1938).pdf
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