Pianophilia

Composer's bio at:

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

Nikolai Karpovich CHEMBERJI (CHEMBERDZHI) (Bashkortostan)
String Quartet no. 3 (1943)

I couldn't find a bio for this composer, but we've seen a small variety of his piano works here.

Boris Il'ich BUDNITSKY
Poem, for string quartet

Here's the second quartet by a fairly prolific female Soviet composer who studied under V. Shebalin (a solid quartet composer to whom this work is dedicated). Her bio can be seen at:

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... HIqxbH3TtQ

Tamara Alexandrovna POPATENKO
String Quartet no. 2 (1945)

Some short works by this composer who was more famous as a conductor. A bio can be seen at:

http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... rev=search

Gabriel Yakovlevich YUDIN
Tajik Folk Pieces (2), for string quartet; 1. Kami Dilyam, 2. Bozi The Lingering Don, for string quartet

Armenak Gurgenovich SHAKHBAGIAN (SHAKHBAGYAN) (Armenia)
Rapid Motion, for string quartet

I apologize if I've been dominating this and other threads with music from the same regions, but there's quite simply (a.) a lot of it and (b.) very little chance that it will turn up otherwise. As for this composer, I've not been able to find a biography. Aside from this work, I've seen a few other chamber pieces and some pedagogical works for piano.

Danadar KHYDYROV (Turkmenistan)
Variations, for string quartet

Bio at:

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... DkSSimtBww

Moisei Aaronovich KATSNELSON (KATZNELSON)
Pieces (2), on USSR folk themes, for string quartet; 1. Russian ('At the Gates, the Gates'), 2. Jewish Dance

Another short work by a composer who was mostly known for folk music settings:

Viktor P. GOLIKOV
Novelette, for string quartet

Here's the first quartet by Nikolai Gorlov, a composer whose work crossed between folk and classical. The footnote on the first page states that 'In the quartet, the composer used three Russian folk songs of the Krasnoyarsk region that he recorded during a folklore expedition in 1956'. Though this is specified as his first quartet, I've not seen mention of any others. Alongside this, he's composed a large number of piano works, including a handful of sonatas, sonatinas, and a set of 24 preludes.

Nikolai Borisovich GORLOV
String Quartet no. 1

It's good to see that the full scores (and parts) of a couple
of the Hindemith string quartets are now available here:-
http://imslp.org/wiki/String_Quartet_in ... h,_Paul%29
http://imslp.org/wiki/String_Quartet_in ... h,_Paul%29