String Quartet No. 6
| Full title | String Quartet No. 6 in C Major / 6. Streichquartett C-Dur | |
| Date composed | 1939 | |
| Details |
Allegro “De profundis”—Adagio Allegro ma non troppo Allegro molto Composition completed May 1939. Dedication: To Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. Performance duration: ca. 25 min. |
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| Manuscript sources | NYPL JOB 73-136, holograph score (51 pages), with composer's note on title page: New York, Mai 1939. See also NYPL JPB 99-7 no. 71, photocopy of copyist's score, with concluding copyist's note: New York, May 12, 1939 / copied by W. Weissleder; and LOCMA box-folder 73/3, holograph sketches (72 pages and inserts). | |
| Publication details | Signed contract with John Markert and Co., 1953, but the work was never published. | |
| Availabiity | Score and parts available from ACA and KWF. | |
| Recordings | Loewenguth Quartet (LP: Triad TRI 1; 1954). | |
| Listen |
String Quartet No. 6: movement 2, Adagio |
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Performances (click
icon to expand or collapse list)| 8 February 1954*** | New York, New York Public Library: Loewenguth Quartet (Alfred Loewenguth, Maurice Fueri, Roger Roche, Pierre Basseux). |
