| String Quartet | |
|---|---|
| 1931 | |
| by Ruth Crawford Seeger | |
&sq=crain_ford&lang=en&file=File:Stringquartet1931_andante.png) Andante from New Music Quarterly | |
| Composed | Berlin, 1931 |
| Performed | November 13, 1933 by the New World String Quartet |
| Published | 1941 |
| Movements | four |
Ruth Crawford Seeger's String Quartet (1931) is "regarded as one of the finest modernist works of the genre".[1] It was funded by the Guggenheim Foundation and written in the spring of 1931, during Crawford's time in Berlin. It was first published in the New Music Edition in January 1941.[2]
- ^ Hisama, Ellie (2006). Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon. Cambridge University Press. p. 4. ISBN 9780521028431.
- ^ Gaume, Mary Matilda (1973). Ruth Crawford Seeger: Her Life and Works. University Microfilms. p. 147.