String Quartet No. 7

Full title String Quartet No. 7 in F Minor / 7. Streichquartett F-moll
Date composed 1942
Details Andante
Allegro molto
Adagio
Allegro

Composed 1941–1942 and completed January 1942.
Performance duration: ca. 27 min.
Manuscript sources NYPL JOB 73-137, holograph working score (35 numbered pages), with composer's note on title page: New York, January 1942; and notes and a completion date at the end of each movement—for movement 1: 26./XI. 1941 / attaca II; for movement 2: Dacaoa al senza repetitions / 20./XII. 1941; for movement 3: attaca IV / 6./I. 1942; and for movement 4: 20./I. 1942 KW . See also NYPL JPB 99-7 no. 72, bound photocopy of manuscript score (34 pages), with pencil note on cover: Peterboro; and LOCMA box-folder 73/4, sketches (71 pages).
Publication details Joshua Music, 1950[?].
Availabiity Score and parts available from KWF.
Recordings Brno String Quartet (LP: Serenus SRS 12093; 1982).
Listen

String Quartet No. 7: movement 2, Allegro moderato
Brno String Quartet

Performances (click icon to expand or collapse list)
11 October 1956*** New York, Austrian Institute, Carnegie Recital Hall, Wolf-Mahler-Weigl Evening: Felix Galimir, Sonja Monosoff, Renee Galimir-Hurtig, Stefan Auber. Also on program: Hugo Wolf, songs; Gustav Mahler, songs; introduction by Carleton Sprague-Smith.
1961 Vienna, Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, 150th anniversary celebration: first European performance of String Quartet No. 7, further performance details unknown.
12 October 1968 Iowa City, Iowa, University of Iowa: Iowa String Quartet (Allen Ohmes, John Ferrell, William Freucil, Charles Wendt).
10 December 1968 Waco, Texas, Baylor University: Iowa String Quartet (Allen Ohmes, John Ferrell, William Freucil, Charles Wendt).
6 May 1971 Paris, Societé de Musique de Chambre: Loewenguth Quartet (Alfred Loewenguth, Maurice Fueri, Roger Roche, Pierre Basseux).
13 March 1974 New York, New York Cultural Center, Bruckner—Mahler—Weigl: New Art String Quartet.
17 January 1979 Vienna, The Music Club: Brno Quartet (Lubomír Cermák, Karel Hejl, Karel Procházka, Boris Pác).
19 July 1981 Vienna, Kulturamt der Stadt Wien, Palais Pallavicini: Brno Quartet (Lubomír Cermák, Karel Hejl, Karel Procházka, Boris Pác).