String Quartet No. 6 (Hill)

String Quartet No. 6 in G major "The Kids", Stiles 1.2.3.3 SQ6, by Alfred Hill bears dedication: "for the young fry at the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music". It was most likely written for the student string quartet groups at the Conservatorium mentored by the composer. The manuscript is dated 3 September 1927. Its technical demands being limited, it is an accessible for amateurs composition. The quartet is set in earlier style, reminiscent of Haydn, Schubert, and other classical composers. With approximate duration of only 15–16 minutes, this is the shortest of all Hill's quartets.

Structure

The quartet is in four movements.

I. Allegro (G major)

II. Scherzo. Allegro (E-flat major)

III. Adagio ma non troppo (C minor)

IV. Finale. Allegretto (G major)

Editions

Alfred Hill. String Quartet No.6 in G : The Kids Quartet. Narara: Stiles Music Publications, 2006 (pub. number S69-2006; ISMN 979-0-20029-72-6)

Recordings

(rec. 1994) Australian String Quartet (Hennessy, Lea, Crellin, Laurs) — (1997) Marco Polo 8.223746.
(rec. 2007) Dominion String Quartet (Gezentsvey, Pucher, Maurice, Chickering) – (2008) Naxos Records 8.572097.

References

Allan Stiles. A Catalogue of the Music of Alfred Hill
Alfred Hill's second wife, Mirrie Hill, in a 1971 interview mentions "the boys" coming round for quartet practice (Melissa Rogers. Revisiting Alfred Hill (1869–1960): Examining issues of reception and compositional approach, PhD thesis. Sydney: UNSW, 2018)
Library catalogue entry for the manuscript score and parts
Donald Maurice. Booklet notes to Naxos 8.572097
Stiles Music Publications

External links

Andrew D. McCredie. Booklet notes to Marco Polo 8.223746

v t e Alfred Hill
Symphonies	No. 1 in B♭ major (by 1898, unfinished) No. 2 in E♭ major (1930s) No. 3 in B minor (1951) No. 4 in C minor (1955) No. 5 in A minor (1955)
Symphonies for strings	No. 8 in A major (perf. 1957) No. 11 in E♭ major (1950s)
String Quartets	No. 1 in B♭ major (by 1911) No. 2 in G minor (1907-1911) No. 3 in A minor (1912) No. 4 in C minor (1916) No. 5 in E♭ major (1920) No. 6 in G major (1927) No. 7 in A major (1934) No. 8 in A major (1934) No. 9 in A minor (1935)
Other	Violin Sonata No. 2 (1906) Violin Sonata No. 3 (ca.1907) Violin Sonata No. 4 (by 1910) Piano Trio in A minor (1890s)

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