Piano Quartet in C Major, Op. 23

Composer: FOOTE, Arthur
  • Foote composed this chamber work in 1890, and it was published in 18921 by Arthur P. Schmidt of Boston.2
  • Foote dedicated this piece to John Knowles Paine,3 who had been his composition instructor at Harvard.4.
  • The work’s premiere took place on April 21, 1891, in Boston. Members of the Kneisel Quartet performed the work with the composer at the piano.5
    • The Kneisel Quartet frequently performed Foote’s works, and Foote credited the group’s leader, Franz Kneisel, with assisting him in polishing his compositional style: he said that he “learned much from Kneisel through his suggestions as to practical points in composition.”6

Sources

  1. Nicholas Tawa, “Foote, Arthur,” Grove Music Online (January 31, 2014), accessed September 30, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-1002257535.
  2. Arthur Foote, Quartett in C dur für Klavier, Violine, Brastche, und Violoncell, Op. 23 (Boston: Arthur P. Schmidt, 1892). 
  3. Ibid.
  4. Tawa, “Foote, Arthur,” Grove Music Online.
  5. Marina and Victor Ledin, liner notes to Arthur Foote: Chamber Music Vol. 2, Da Vinci Quartet et al, Marco Polo 8.223983, CD, 1998.
  6. Quoted in  Tawa, “Foote, Arthur,” Grove Music Online.

Cut IDs

13805 17679 19735