List of string quartets by Béla Bartók

• String Quartet No. 1, Op.7, Sz. 40, BB 52
• String Quartet No. 2, Op.17, Sz. 67, BB 75
• String Quartet No. 3, Sz. 85, BB 93
• String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91, BB 95
• String Quartet No. 5, Sz. 102, BB 110
• String Quartet No. 6, Sz. 114, BB 119

• Benjamin Britten, particularly in the Sonata in C for Cello and Piano
• Elliott Carter, who refers in the opening of his own First String Quartet to Bartók's Sixth Quartet
• Chen Yi
• Edison Denisov, whose Second Quartet is closely related to Bartók's Fifth Quartet
• Franco Donatoni, who was deeply impressed when he heard a broadcast of Bartók's Fourth Quartet
• Robert Fripp, who mentions them as an influence upon King Crimson
• Miloslav Ištvan
• György Kurtág, whose Opp. 1 and 28 both owe a great deal to Bartók's quartets
• György Ligeti, whose two string quartets both owe a great deal to Bartók's quartets
• Bruno Maderna
• George Perle, who credits the Bartók Fourth and Fifth Quartets as precedents for his use of arrays of chords related to one another by different types of symmetry
• Walter Piston
• Kim Dzmitrïyevich Tsesakow
• Wilfried Westerlinck
• Stefan Wolpe, who explained in a public lecture how he had derived ideas from Bartók's Fourth Quartet
• Xu Yongsan.

• Emerson String Quartet, Deutsche Grammophon, released 1990.
• Hagen Quartet
• Juilliard String Quartet:
• *Recorded 1949, New York. Robert Mann and Robert Koff, violins; Raphael Hillyer, viola; Arthur Winograd, cello. Three LPs, 12 in., monaural. Columbia Masterworks ML 4278/4279/4280.
• *Recorded May and September, 1963, Columbia 30th Street Studios, New York. Robert Mann and Isidore Cohen, violins; Raphael Hillyer, viola; Claus Adam, cello. Three LPs, 12 in., stereo. Columbia Masterworks D3L 317 : ML 6102, 6103, 6104. New York: Columbia Masterworks, 1965.
• *Recorded 13–23 May 1981, Columbia 30th Street Studios, New York. Robert Mann and Earl Carlyss, violins; Samuel Rhodes, viola; Claus Adam, cello.
• Lindsay String Quartet.
• Takács Quartet, Decca 289 455 297-2. Released 1998.