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Sally Beamish's String Quartet No. 4 Nine Fragments is a 20-minute work that takes Robert Schumann's String Quartet No. 1 in A minor as a starting point. The piece was commissioned by the Elias Quarte...

First performed October 1991, Musica '91, Strasbourg by the Arditti String Quartet. Commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture

First performed October 1998, Donaueschingen by the Arditti String Quartet. Commissioned by South West German Radio for the Donaueschinger Musiktage

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