The Composers Quartet

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The Composers String Quartet was a string quartet best known for performances of new works by contemporary composers, [1] including quartets by Elliott Carter [2] and Ruth Crawford Seeger. [3] Carter's Fourth Quartet was dedicated to the Composers Quartet, who premiered the work in 1986. [4] The group has performed quartets by more than 60 American composers, and has toured abroad extensively. [5]

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The quartet was founded in 1965, [6] and remained active until the late 1990s. During the early 1970s it was the quartet-in-residence at New England Conservatory, where it sponsored a biennial composition prize. [7] In 1975, the group became the quartet-in-residence at Columbia University, remaining at Columbia for at least two decades. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "CHAMBER: COMPOSERS QUARTET". The New York Times. 1982-11-27.
  2. ↑ "The Carter Vogue", TIME Magazine, Feb. 10, 1975
  3. ↑ Tick, Judith. "Ruth Crawford Seeger's Different Tunes".
  4. ↑ "Elliott Carter: String Quartet No. 4", Notes, 48:2 (Dec. 1991), p. 689.
  5. ↑ New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
  6. ↑ "About the Mt. Desert Festival of Chamber Music".
  7. ↑ New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
  8. ↑ Composers String Quartet to Perform at Miller, Columbia University Record, Oct. 28, 1994, Vol. 20, No. 8


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