- This is the first of Chadwick’s five string quartets.
- Chadwick probably wrote this piece while studying music in Leipzig. First he studied privately with Salomon Jadassohn, then he became a student at the Leipzig Conservatory.
- Chadwick traveled to Leipzig in 1877 because he was dissatisfied with the quality of music education he had received thus far in America. He had attended the New England Conservatory, but only part time, as he had to work his own way through college as a clerk in his father’s insurance office. (Chadwick’s father did not approve of a musical career for his son.)
- The first two movements of this piece premiered in Leipzig in 1878, in a concert of student compositions.1
Sources
- Steven Ledbetter and Victor Fell Yellin, “Chadwick, George Whitefield,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed July 29, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000005356.
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