Bela Bartok composed his 44 Violin Duos in 1931 at the urging of the German violin pedagogue Erich Doflein. With two exceptions, all the pieces are based on original folk music themes, most of which the
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The Children's and Female Choruses were composed in a single burst of creative activity at the zenith of Bartok's career, in the summer of 1935, between such masterpieces as the String Quartet
Eight pieces for duos, trios, and quartets with optional combinations of violin, flute, clarinet and cello.
Composed in 1834, Liszt's Grand duo is based on material from three pieces from the first book (op. 19b) of Mendelssohn's Songs without Words (no. 1 in E major, no. 6 in G minor, and no. 3 in A major).
For Gyorgy Kurtag, Mussorgsky's works have always been an important model. Several of his works contain pieces referring to Mussorgsky (Games III, The Small Snag), and in his opera, Fin de partie, he also