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Fourth String Quartet op. 37

Allegro molto; energico
Comodo
Largo
Allegro
    DATE:
  • 27. April 1936 - 26. Juni 1936
    FIRST PERFORMANCE:
  • 8. Januar 1937, Los Angeles, University of California at Los Angeles, Josiah Royce Hall (Kolisch-Quartett)
    APPROXIMATE DURATION:
  • ca. 32 Min.
    SOURCES:
  • ASC, MS 41, Archivnr. 1004-1032 (Skizzen, Teile der Ersten Niederschrift, Reihentabelle); The Library of Congress, Washington D.C., Music Division (Reinschrift)
    FIRST PRINT:
  • G. Schirmer, New York 1939 (Pl. Nr. 38236c; Pl. Nr. 38742c Stimmen)
    DEDICATION:
  • »To the ideal patron of chamber music Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge and to the ideal interpreters of it The Kolisch Quartet«
    COMPLETE EDITION / GESAMTAUSGABE:
  • Arnold Schönberg, Sämtliche Werke, Abteilung VI: Kammermusik, Reihe A, Bd. 21, Streichquartette II, Streichtrio, hrsg. von Christian Martin Schmidt, Mainz-Wien 1982, S. 57-126; Abteilung VI: Kammermusik, Reihe B, Bd. 21, hrsg. von Christian Martin Schmidt, Mainz-Wien 1984, S. 46-92 (Kritischer Bericht, Skizzen, Fragmente)
    SALES MATERIAL:
  • G. Schirmer: ED 38236 (Partitur); OR 38742 (Stimmen)
Additional information for this work from the Arnold Schoenberg Center.