Beach: String Quartet, Op. 89

by Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, John Graziano (Editor), Adrienne Block (Editor)

Recognized as America's leading woman composer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Amy Beach (1867-1944) belonged to the Second New England School of composers. Her one-movement Quartet, a lean yet lyrical work of great originality, incorporates Alaskan Inuit melodies as thematic material. Completed in 1929, the Quartet was one of Beach's few unpublished works. This edition, which includes a facsimile of the 1921 draft score, makes the work available for the first time. This is the second printing with corrections of this edition. Instrumental parts sold separately. (Also listed as Volume 23 in Recent Researches in American Music.)

90 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Noted American pianist Amy Marcy Cheney Beach composed her songs and chamber music as well as the Grand Mass (1892) and Gaelic Symphony (1896).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Beach