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while living in Austria with his partner Gian Carlo Menotti after Barber's Rome Prize, the composer intended that the quartet be premiered by the Curtis String Quartet, but did not finish the piece in time for their concert tour. On September 19, 1936, Barber wrote their cellist Orlando Cole: "I have just finished the slow movement of my quartet today--it is a knockout! Now for a

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