String Quartet No.3 in E minor, Op.18 (Gibbs, Cecil Armstrong)

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Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 3 movements
Composition Year 1918 June to December
Genre Categories Quartets; For 2 violins, viola, cello; Scores featuring the violin; [3 more...]Scores featuring the viola; Scores featuring the cello; For 4 players

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Editor First edition
Publisher. Info. London: Goodwin & Tabb, 1921.
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Work Title String Quartet No.3 in E minor
Alternative. Title String Quartet for Two Violins, Viola and Violoncello No.3 in E (Op.18)
Composer Gibbs, Cecil Armstrong
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. Op.18
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No. ICG 10
Key E minor
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 3:
  1. Moderato e tranquillo ( = 84)
  2. Allegro risoluto ( = 100)
  3. Air and Variations (Andante e semplice. Air, Four variations, Finale)
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1918 June to December
First Performance. 1919?
First Publication. 1921
Dedication Cedric Sharpe and the Philharmonic Quartet
Average DurationAvg. Duration 20 minutes
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Early 20th century
Piece Style Early 20th century
Instrumentation 2 Violins, viola, cello
External Links *Gibbs Catalogue PDF

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A performance of a quartet- this one?- by Gibbs reviewed in the Musical Times in June 1920 (Volume 61, June 1 1920, page 390) specifies that it was not the premiere. Revista musicale Italiana also mentions a performance. (When were first two quartets written and what were their performance histories?...)

"Proxime accesit Carnegie Prize 1919".

Earlier quartets by Gibbs according to external link:

  • a C major op.1 unpublished, composed and performed in 1912 (probably a "quartet 0")-
  • a quartet op.6 later incorporated into op.8-
  • a G minor op.7 unpublished at B-P library (B-P?), dedicated to E. J. Dent, composed 1916 November and premiered 1917 April; (quartet 1?)
  • a A minor op8 (3 movements) composed 1917 also in manuscript dedicated to the London String Quartet (which premiered the op.7) - performed 1917 November (by the dedicatees) (quartet 2?)

Also several later quartets (pastoral quartet op.41, A major op.73 - recorded, G minor "miniature quartet" op.74 (both 1933, published), also String Quartet in C op.95 (1940), String Quartet in G minor (Kenilworth), Op 99 (unpublished), String Quartet "No.6" in C op.118 (1947) (unpublished), A Simple String Quartet, Op 140 (1954, unpublished), String Quartet in E minor (1958, unpublished) ). So even not counting opp.1 and 6, arguably about a dozen or so string quartets.- Schissel (Note: University of Adelaide has in their stacks Opp. 18, 73 and 74.)

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