String Quartet No. 1

The String Quartet No. 1 is the first string quartet by the American composer Christopher Rouse. The work was commissioned by the Casella Quartet and completed on June 7, 1982.

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The String Quartet No. 1 is the first string quartet by the American composer Christopher Rouse. The work was commissioned by the Casella Quartet and completed on June 7, 1982. Composition Structure The work has a duration of roughly 16 minutes and is composed in six movements: Variazioni I Fantasma di Bartok I Variazioni Piccoli Fantasma di Bartok II Variazioni II Epilogo Inspiration The work was primarily inspired by Béla Bartók's String Quartet No. 4 and the assassination of Anwar Sadat, about which Rouse commented in the score program notes:

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