| 作曲者 | Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959)・ボフスラフ・マルティヌー |
| タイトル | String Quartet Nr. 4（ポケットスコア） |
| 出版社 | Bärenreiter Praha・ベーレンライター |
| 楽器編成 | 2V/Va/Vc |
| 楽器編成（詳細） | 2V/Va/Vc |
| 品番 | 9790260100763 |
| 編曲者 | Ivan Straus, Aleš Brezina |
| 形状 | 22.5 x 16.7 cm・136 g |
| 出版番号 | H 7844 |
| ISMN | 979-0260100763 |
| その他 | オンデマンド印刷 |
String Quartet No.4 by Bohuslav Martinu [1890-1959) originated in 1937 in Paris where it was also premiered in a private performance one year later. Due to the composer's emigration to the U.S.A. and the post-war political development in Czechoslovakia, the piece remained for many years in oblivion in the archive of the Puc family to whom Martinu dedicated it. It was re-discovered as late as in 1956 by Martinu's friend and a keen promoter of his work Milos Safranek. Four years later the quartet was performed in public by the Novak Quartet in a concert in Germany.
The main sources for the presented practical edition of this neo-classicistic composition, in which Martinu typically combined French moderateness with Czech melodiousness, were the autograph and the 1963 edition by SHV, thoroughly freed of all the unwanted previous editorial revisions.