String Quartet No. 8 in A major.

About String Quartet No. 8 in A major

String Quartet No. 8 in A major, Stiles 1.2.3.3 SQ8, by Australian composer Alfred Hill was finished half month after his Seventh: the manuscript score and parts, which are preserved in the National Library of Australia, are dated 6 December 1934. While the previous quartet was a somewhat transitive composition from his middle period, with the Eighth one starts counting Hill's late quartets. It is thematically unified and has many impressionistic features. In 1950s, Hill arranged it into a string symphony, the first known performance of which was on 27 March 1957.