| 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. Note that in some cases this rule may be overridden by a treaty with the source country (especially the United States) and/or may not apply to works which fell into the public domain in their source country due to a failure to renew copyright or comply with other formalities. |
| 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).
