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List of compositions for accordion and string quartet. Composers started writing music for this special combination in the second half of the twentieth century.

A

• Alain Abbott (1938)
  • Simples Melodies...: 4 pièces très faciles pour accordéon de concert et quatuor à cordes (1979)
• Hans Abrahamsen (1952)
  • Three Little Nocturnes (2005)
• Sergey Akhunov (1967)
  • Two Keys to one Brodsky's poem
• Franck Angelis
  • Étude sur le thème Chiquilín de Bachín
• Valéry Arzoumanov (1944)
  • Quintette (2013)
• Dirk d'Ase (1960)
  • Burning Day (1995)

B

• Zbigniew Bargielski (1937)
  • Noc pożegnań na akordeon i kwartet smyczkowy (1983) "Abschiedsnacht"

(Revised version premiered on March 13, 1996, by Georg Schulz (Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna, AT))

• Vidmantas Bartulis (1954)
  • We sing reservedly in the presence of the unknown... (2008)
• Jürg Baur (1918-2010)
  • Concerto für Mixtur-Trautonium und Streichquartett, Fassung für Akkordeon(1956/1987)
• Franck Bedrossian (1971)
  • I lost a world the other day (2016)
• Robert Russell Bennett (1894/1981)
  • Quintet (Psychiatry) for accordion and string quartet (1963)
• Bernard van Beurden (1933-2016)
  • A-vier (2009)
• Joseph Biviano
  • Quintet in G
• Marcin Błażewicz (1953)
  • Can you hear them? - Shadows of Memory for accordion and string quartet (2001)
• Jack Body (1944-2015)
  • Saetas (2003/05)
• Edward Bogusławski (1940-2003)
  • Impromptu II A for string quartet and accordion (1999)
• Marcin Bortnowski (1972)
  • Music in lent (2000)
• Mikhail Bronner (1952)
  • 1812 Capriccio for bayan and string quartet (2012)
  • Seven Yiddish Songs for bayan and string quartet (version) (2014)
• Walter Buczynski (1933)
  • Projection for accordion and string quartet (1978)

C

• Cesare Chiacchiaretta (1973)
  • Anemos (2017)
• Mary Ellen Childs (1957)
  • Four of One of Another (1988)
• Wiesław Cienciała (1961 )
  • Variants n° 2 for accordion and string quartet (1996)
• Vladislav Cojocaru (1983)
  • Harlequin (2016)
  • Torero
• David Croft (1922-2011) and Roy Moore
  • The 'Allo 'Allo! theme (1982)

D

• Fridolin Dallinger (1933)
  • Quintet for accordion and string quartet (2009)
• Gary Daverne (1939)
  • Concert Waltz (1993)
• Đeni Dekleva-Radaković (1949 )
  • Kvintet
• Robert Denhof (1945)
  • Concertino für Bajan/Akkordeon und Streichquartett oder Streichorchester op. 139 (2012)
• Henryk Derus (1959)
  • Euphõnia (1996)
• Jean-Louis Dhaine (1949 - 2006)
  • Night music
• David Diamond (1915 - 2005)
  • Night music (1961)
• Snieguolė Dikčiūtė (1966)
  • Arcade (2008)
• Violeta Dinescu (1953)
  • All´ombra del tiempo (1995)
• Miro Dobrowolny (1959)
  • Pavane (2009)
• Doderer, Johanna (1969)
  • Heidekrautwalzer für Akkordeon und Streichquartett

E

• Simon Eastwood (1985)
  • Magnetic Lines (2015)

F

• Markus Fagerudd (1961)
  • Wilma sarja (2007)
• Ivan Fedele (1953)
  • Deystviya (2011)
• Günter Friedrichs (1935)
  • Storie e colori (1988/89)

G

• Pascal Gaigne (1958)
  • Avant la nuit (2003)
• Vytautas Germanavičius (1969)
  • Black Shadows - White Shadows (2008)
• Aaron Gervais (1980)
  • Four Pieces for Accordion and String Quartet (2003)
• Jani Golob (1948)
  • Concertino for accordion & string quartet (2012)
• Gerardo Gozzi (1988)
  • Spazi della memoria di un vecchio (2015)
• Herbert Grassl (1948)
  • Cinque incontri (1995)
• Eric Gross (1926-2011)
  • Concert fantasia, op. 252 (2001)

H

• Pouya Hamidi (1986)
  • Three Reflections on Empathy (2015)
• Gorka Hermosa
  • Gernika, 26/4/1937 (1994)
  • Anantango (2003/15)
• Bertold Hummel (1925-2002)
  • Tripartita opus 85a (1986)
• Veikko Huuskonen (1930)
  • Kesäsarja (version 1) (2000)
• Asko Hyvärinen (1963)
  • Ehiknosdeux (2000)

J

• David Johnstone
  • Sonata de Cámara" (Mar del plata), for Accordion and String Quartet (2003)
• Ralf Jung
  • As-Musik

K

• Ben Kahmann (1914-2002)
  • Rhapsodium
• Shigeru Kan-no (1959)
  • Pro-Concerto-Grosso WVE 168-b for Accordion and String Quartet(2000)
• Friedrich Keil (1957)
  • Drei Referenzen (2004)
• Johannes Kern (1965)
  • Happy birthday to me (1996)
• Hannes Kerschbaumer (1981)
  • abbozzo V for quartertone-accordion and string quartet (2014)
• Jouni Kesti (1946)
  • Jounikvintetto (2011)
• Nikola Kołodziejczyk (1986)
  • Subliminal Folk Suite
• Jo Kondo (1947)
  • Yarrow (2005)
• Włodzimierz Korcz (1943)
  • 07 zgłoś się (2013)
• Przemysław Książek (1976)
  • Concerto breve n° 2 for accordion and string quartet
  • Obsessio
• Veli Kujala (1976)
  • Friixi (2006)
  • Mixi for quartertone-accordion and string quartet (2011)
• Ladislav Kupkovič (1936-2016)
  • Quintet for Accordion and String Quartet (2005)

L

• Hope Lee (1953)
  • Fei Yang (2000)
• Krzysztof Lenczowski
  • Atom Accordion Quintet
• Martin Lichtfuss (1959)
  • K*tzbühel - eine Patriotische Huldigung (2008)
• Martin Lohse (1971)
  • Concerto in tempi (2012)
• Grégoire Lorieux (1976)
  • Description du blanc (b) (2011)
• I-Tsen Lu
  • Jenseits, im ungewissen (1996)
• Ray Luedeke (1944)
  • Tango Dreams, for accordion and string trio
• Torbjörn Lundquist
  • Bewegungen (1966)

M

• Andrew Paul MacDonald (1958)
  • Winds of Thera op. 44 (1997)
• Teisutis Makačinas (1938)
  • Arcade (2008)
• Mikołaj Majkusiak (1983)
  • up2U
• Javier Torres Maldonado
  • Luz (2000)
• Miklós Maros (1943)
  • Quintetto mantice for Accordion and String Quartet (2012)
• David Mastikosa (1992)
  • Dimensio for accordion and string quartet (2017)
• Dominic Matthews
  • Dvasia (2018)
• Chiel Meijering (1954)
  • Spinning out (1989)
• Michał Moc (1977)
  • Accordella (2000)
• Eric Morin (1969)
  • In Praise of Folly (2010)
• Staffan Mossenmark (1961)
  • Kraftspiel (1991)
• Aures Kabir Moussong
  • Sama (2013)
• Marian Mozetich (1948)
  • Hymn of ascension, original version for harmonium and string quartet
• Massimo Munari (1976)
  • Esar II (2016)
• Benjamin de Murashkin (1981)
  • Microcosm (2016)
• Matti Murto (1947)
  • Kvintetto (2007)
• Peter Mutter (1992)
  • Impuls (2015)

N

• Aspasia Nasopoulou (1972)
  • Perivoli (2013)
• Daniel Nelson (1965)
  • My inner disco (2002)
• Jon Øivind Ness (1968)
  • Spoof Spiral 2 : for accordion and string quartet (2001)
• James Nightingale (accordionist) (1948)
  • Cantillations
• Patrick Nunn (1969)
  • Escape-velocity (2006)

O

• Krzysztof Olczak (1956)
  • Angels of Darkness (version 2) (2002)
• Jan Oleszkowicz (1947)
  • Tzigane koncert (2000)
• Sławomir Olszamowski (1953)
  • Quintet 144 MM. for accordion and string quartet (1999)
• Esa Onttonen (1975)
  • Kiduspoika Janus (2002)

P

• Jaime Padrós (1926-2007)
  • Epigrafos sonorizados (1986)
• Klaus Paier (1966)
  • invencíon 1998 for accordion & string quartet (1998)
  • scenes (2006)
  • tres sentimientos (2006)
  • three + four (2006)
• Theodor Pauß (1969)
  • Noch einmal, in alle Ewigkeit! (2000)
• Barbara Pentland (1912-2000)
  • Interplay (1972)
• Carlos Peron-Cano (1976)
  • Natura Celestis (version 2)
• Matthias Pintscher (1971)
  • Figura I (1998)
• Astor Piazzolla
  • Five Tango Sensations for bandoneón & string quartet (1989)
• Efrem Podgaits (1949)
  • Ex animo (2003)
• Kimmo Pohjonen (1964)
  • Uniko (2004), CD Project with Kronos Quartet (2011)
• Gene Pritsker (1971)
  • Revisited Residue (2017)
• Donatas Prusevičius (1966)
  • Storm (2004)
• Bronisław Kazimierz Przybylski (1941-2011)
  • Metamorphosen für Akkordeon und Streichquartett (1985)
  • From the Life triptych for accordion and string quartet (2000)
  • Night Birds (version 3) for accordion and string quartet (2007)
• Kazimierz Pyzik (1955)
  • Halucynacja n° 4 (1999)

R

• Osmo Tapio Räihälä (1964)
  • De-cadenza (2005)
• Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje (1973)
  • Gagaku variations (2001)
• Werner Richter (1929-2008)
  • Musik über ein böhmisches Volkslied (1980)
• Wolfgang Rihm (1952)
  • Fetzen 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 (2002)
• Aldemaro Romero (1928-2007)
  • Five Paleontological Mysteries: I. Fossils; II. Lizards; III. Jelly Fishes; IV. Paleocyphonates; V. Ubos (2005)
• Richard Romiti (1943)
  • Serenade (1979)
• Nick Roth (1982)
  • Second Quintet (2019)
• Bernhard Rövenstrunck (1920)
  • Adaptationen (1969)
• Poul Ruders (1949)
  • Serenade on the shores of the Cosmic Ocean (2005)

S

• Jorge Torres Sáenz (1968)
  • Primera intempestiva (2018)
• Jacek Sajka (1961)
  • Noumenon (1999)
• Jan Sandström (1954)
  • Strange Matter (1985)
• Gerwin Schmucker
  • Orbit
• Patrice Sciortino (1922)
  • Improvvisatura (2013)
• Gabriel Sivak (1979)
  • Nadando en la nada (2008)
• Ylva Skog (1963)
  • Trote (2018-2019)
• Bent Sørensen (1958)
  • Dancers and Disappearance (2018)
• Martin Stauning (1982)
  • Where We Are There Is No Here (2014)
• Robert Stiegler (1959)
  • Parlando, a fantasy with four in one
• Nicolaas van Straten
  • Curven (1970)
• Józef Świder (1930)
  • Suite im alten Stil (1979)

T

• Rob Teehan
  • Wistful thinking (2010)
• Sara Torquati (1961)
  • Puer Natus (2003)
• Javier Torres-Maldonado (1968)
  • Lux (2001)
• Pavel Trojan (1956)
  • Ballet scenes (2011)
• Jan Truhlář (1928 - 2007)
  • Scherzo (version 1) (1968)
  • Sentence (2002)

U

• Raimonds Ungurs
  • Malda (Prayer) (2015)

V

• Gunnar Valkare (1943)
  • Taang (2001)
  • EX (2002)
• Anna Veismane (1979)
  • Why me? (version 2) (2010)
• Francesca Verunelli (1979)
  • Luminal (2007)

W

• Adrian Williams (1956)
  • Quintet (1996)
• James Wilson (1922–2005)
  • Quintet for Accordion and Strings Op. 22 (1967)
• Helena Winkelman (1974)
  • Tides-Sedit (2010)
• Tomas Winter (1954)
  • Gömställen (2002/03)
• Piotr Wróbel
  • Suita 3 5 7
• Gerhard Wuensch (1925-2007)
  • Music without Pretensions, Opus 45 (1969)
• Zdzislaw Wysocki (1944)
  • Quintettino - für Akkordeon und Streichquartett (1994)

Y

• Aliaksandr Yasinski
  • Peace (Мір) (2015)
• Video on YouTube
• Isang Yun (1917-1995)
  • Concertino (1983)
• Video on YouTube

Z

• Franck Zabel (1968)
  • Danse disparue (2012)
• Video on YouTube

Sources

• Aut|C. Jacomucci (ed.): Critical selection of accordion works composed between 1990 and 2010. Loreto: Edizioni Tecnostampa, 2014. ISBN 978-88-87651-54-6.
• RIM Repertoire lists volume 8 accordion, Utrecht 1990 (Repertoire Informatie Centrum)

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