The Composers Quartet

The Composers String Quartet was a string quartet best known for performances of new works by contemporary composers,[1] including quartets by Elliott Carter[2] and Ruth Crawford Seeger.[3] Carter's Fourth Quartet was dedicated to the Composers Quartet, who premiered the work in 1986.[4] The group has performed quartets by more than 60 American composers, and has toured abroad extensively.[5]

The quartet was founded in 1965,[6] and remained active until the late 1990s. During the early 1970s it was the quartet-in-residence at New England Conservatory, where it sponsored a biennial composition prize.[7] In 1975, the group became the quartet-in-residence at Columbia University, remaining at Columbia for at least two decades.[8]

## Members

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* Matthew Raimondi (d. 2024), violin
* Anahid Ajemian, violin
* Bernard Zaslav, viola (succeeded by Jean Dupouy, Jean Dane, and Ron Carbone; the quartet also recorded with violist Maureen Gallagher)
* Seymour Barab, cello (succeeded by Michael Rudiakov, Michael Haber and Mark Shuman)

## References

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1. ^ "CHAMBER: COMPOSERS QUARTET". The New York Times. November 27, 1982.
2. ^ "The Carter Vogue", TIME Magazine, Feb. 10, 1975
3. ^ Tick, Judith. "Ruth Crawford Seeger's Different Tunes".
4. ^ "Elliott Carter: String Quartet No. 4", Notes, 48:2 (Dec. 1991), p. 689.
5. ^ New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
6. ^ "About the Mt. Desert Festival of Chamber Music".
7. ^ New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
8. ^ Composers String Quartet to Perform at Miller, Columbia University Record, Oct. 28, 1994, Vol. 20, No. 8

## External links

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* The Composers Quartet discography at Discogs

Authority control databases

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* ISNI
* VIAF

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* France
* BnF data

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* MusicBrainz

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