String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14031801
Composed
by Sir Arthur Drummond
Bliss. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Score. 56 pages. Music
Sales #NOV120144.
Published by Music Sales
(HL.14031801).
7.0x10.0x0.28
inches.
Sir
Arthur Bliss
(1891-1975) was a British
composer and conductor.
He studied under Wood and
Stanford at Cambridge and
the Royal College of
Music, where he met and
drew inspiration from
Vaughan Williams, Holst,
Howells, and Goossens. He
was appointed Master of
the Queen's Music in 1953
and wrote music for many
state occasions,
including the Coronation
and the Funeral of
Winston Churchill.
The String
Quartet No.1 in Bb
Major was first
published in 1941. It was
actually the third String
Quartet Bliss
composed, but the first
two were early works
which he withdrew or
lost. It was written in
America in 1940 and first
performed inBerkeley,
California; it became the
last work he wrote before
he returned to Britain to
help the war effort.
Bb for 1
