String Quartet 1931 (Crawford Seeger)
| String Quartet | |
|---|---|
| 1931 | |
| by Ruth Crawford Seeger | |
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". 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.