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| Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 4 movements
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| Composition Year | 1918 |
| Genre Categories | Quartets; For 2 violins, viola, cello; Scores featuring the violin; |
⇒ 4 more: I. Allegro ma non troppo, ed energico • II. Scherzo. Presto. • III. Andante con molta espressione. • IV. Finale. Allegro vivace.
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| Work Title | String Quartet No.3 in B minor |
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| Alternative. Title | |
| Composer | Huss, Henry Holden |
| Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. | Op.31 ; Greene 353 |
| I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IHH 14 |
| Key | B minor |
| Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 4 movements
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| Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 1918 |
| First Performance. | 1919 July 2 or before (performed by the Berkshire Quartet in 1919 at the National Federation of Music Clubs, Pittsfield, Massachusetts) |
| First Publication. | 1921 by Society for the Publication of American Music |
| Copyright Information | Possibly public domain in EU and other 70 pma territories. Please obey the copyright laws of your country. IMSLP does not assume any sort of legal responsibility or liability for the consequences of downloading files that are not in the public domain in your country. |
| Dedication | Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge (1864–1953) (identified as Mrs. Frederic Shurtliff Coolidge in the early part of the 20th century, and as founder of the Berkshire Quartet) |
| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Romantic |
| Piece Style | Romantic |
| Instrumentation | 2 Violins, viola, cello |
A (contemporary with the event) New York Times review (April 18, 1906) mentions a String Quartet in E minor, Op.22, performed early the 20th century by the Kneisel Quartet. There is an (another?) opus 22, containing 4 Songs, but odd opus number questions are not unusual with Huss. (The E minor quartet may, however, have been another composer's work offered along with Huss' violin sonata which was indeed in the program, and the critic merely confused- also not unprecedented) . Greene (Henry Holden Huss: an American composer's life, page 181, skimmed at Google Books) states that this was composed in 1918 and performed, perhaps premiered, in 1919 as part of a prize Huss received for the work. The cover of the score has "1920/21" but I do not know what that refers to. - Schissel
note: Greene mentions, in his worklist, two other quartets: a quartet in G minor from 1908, apparently lost; a 2nd string quartet in E minor op.29 (not 22), requested by Ysaÿe (presumably Eugene, not Theo), but also, apparently, lost. (Greene, pp255–256) (Schissel)
(According to Greene, the 1919-7-2 performance by the Berkshire Quartet - see his Henry Holden Huss: An American Composer's Life, p.71 - was the work's premiere.)
Re "Greene 353" - see Greene, p.257 (worklist).
