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. |
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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 |
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). |