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Coolidge Commissions: Britten and Prokofiev

Benjamin Britten
String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 (1941)

V. Andante sostenuto – Allegro vivo

VI. Allegro con slancio

VII. Andante calmo

VII. Molto vivace

*commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge

Hanns Eisler
Selections from The Hollywood Songbook (1943)

Sergei Prokofiev
String Quartet No. 1 in B minor (1931)

IV. Allegro

V. Andante molto

VI. Andante

*commissioned by the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation of the Library of Congress

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