Bedřich Smetana's String Quartet No. 2 in D minor is a chamber composition for string quartet. It is Smetana's second and final quartet, written between 1882 and 1883.
The first page of the autograph score of Smetana's second string quartet
String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, written in 1876, is a four-movement chamber composition by Czech composer Bedřich Smetana. It is an autobiographical work with nationalistic elements and was published
String Quartet No. 2 (Smetana)
…Presto Smetana said that the second quartet takes up from where his first finished: "...after the catastrophe, it represents the turbulence of music in a person who had lost his hearing". The musical construction and language…
The last page of the autograph score of Smetana's first string quartet