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Antheil - Complete Works for String Quartet | Other Minds OM1008

Antheil - Complete Works for String Quartet

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Label: Other Minds

Cat No: OM1008

Barcode: 0684390100825

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 1st September 2008

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About

If there is a musical counterpart to the writers of the lost Generation, it is surely George Antheil. The early musical career of this Trenton, New Jersey-born composer (1900-1959), captures the spirit of a whole generation of young American artists — deracinés who went abroad to complete their education, refine their tastes, live cheaply, and enjoy the far freer artistic and sexual milieu.

For Antheil, this period (1922-1933) was marked by his friendship with famous literary and artistic figures — the left Bank expatriates Joyce, Hemingway, Pound, and William Carlos Williams, and the Right Bank intellectuals Cocteau, Satie, Breton, Aragon. Their fascination with this brilliant, irresistible and tireless young American composer was primarily inspired by his peculiar music: a personal fusion of American jazz and Stravinsky’s primitivism mixed with mechanical and percussive patterns.

World Premiere Recordings of:
- Quartet No.2 for Strings (original version, 1927) “For Sylvia Beach, with Love”
- Six Little Pieces for String Quartet (1931) “For Mary Louise Bok”

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