String Quartet, Op.33 (Helsted, Gustav)

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Publisher. Info. Copenhagen: Edition Wilhelm Hansen, 1922. Plate 17996.
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Work Title String Quartet (No.4)
Alternative. Title
Composer Helsted, Gustav
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. Op.33
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No. IGH 4
Key F minor
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 4
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1917 ?
First Publication. 1922
Average DurationAvg. Duration 25 minutes
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Romantic
Piece Style Romantic
Instrumentation 2 Violins, Viola, Violoncello
External Links DaCapo ("According to the Royal Library in Copenhagen the original manuscript is dated 23 Septem­ber 1917".)

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According to the worklist on Wikipedia, Helsted composed 5 string quartets of which this is the last - two unnumbered quartets (one early, and this late quartet) bookending three numbered quartets.

DKB describes this as his quartet no.4 in their catalog, and gives "quartet no.5" to his quartet in F major, op.24.

Edition S gives 1920 for composition date. The description of the new CD recording (DaCapo 8.226111, June 2016, Decet and String Quartet in F minor) gives ca.1917 (which apparently is the date on the manuscript; it is of course conceivable that it underwent later revisions). (The latter recording takes 27 minutes despite a rather briefer first movement- perhaps lacking first movement repeat?.)

Helsted's other quartets may have been published only posthumously if at all?? Opp.19 in C minor and the B minor have been published recently (ca.2001) by Edition Karpen, Copenhagen.