String Quartet No. 1 [HL:359085]

Robert Moevs (1920-2007) was a modernist composer and professor of composition at Rutgers University from 1964 to 1991. During his career, Moevs created a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal, and instrumental music that earned him awards including a Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Stockhausen International Prize in Composition in 1978. Moevs composed at a time Kemper describes as�high modernism in academic art music in America�but there are also other influences in his music, like jazz, interesting rhythmic progressions, and intriguing things happening with timbre. Moevs' Strng Quartet No. 1 was composed in 1957. Duration ca. 25'