General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMerritt, Arthur Tillman
Sender (corporation)Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Sender‘s locationCambridge, Massachusetts
Note on Sender‘s location[Cambridge, Massachusetts]
Send date14.10.1946
Recipient
Recipient (corporation)Walden String Quartet
Recipient‘s locationIthaca, New York
LanguageEnglish
AcquiredIsham Memorial Library, Cambridge, USA
Owner of the sourceHarvard University, Cambridge MA
Owner‘s call numberMs. Coll. 100, box 1
Call number at IBMMer 1946-10-14
Content and physical description
ContentArthur Tillman Merritt informs recipients of a Symposium on Music Criticism to be held May 1-3, 1947 at the Department of Music, Harvard University. The Symposium will also include three concerts of works composed by well-known composers for this purpose. The first concert will be of chamber music, and they have commissioned string quartets by Walter Piston and Bohuslav Martinů, and a string trio by Arnold Schoenberg, which has already been completed.
After some consideration, they offer the Walden String Quartet to perform at this concert, which Piston has told Merritt would be interested.
The Schoenberg Trio is finished, and as it will certainly be the most challenging piece, they will be sending out the written material to the addressees very soon. Piston and Martinu are to submit the pieces by mid-February [1947], but he hopes to do so sooner. ATM undertakes that the addressees will receive the itemized material shortly after March 1, 1947.
ATM will appreciate an early response to its offer.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text1
Notea carbon copy of the sent letter
Fixationtypescript
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional colour
Digitized atIsham Memorial Library, Cambridge, USA
Date of digitisation11/2016

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Person as subject
Martinů, Bohuslav
Piston, Walter
Schönberg, Arnold
Composition as subject
String Quartet No. 6, H 312
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