Canfield: String Quartet after Mendelssohn in A Minor

Code: JP9016ISMN: 979-0-3019-0317-9 In the 1980s, David DeBoor Canfield often got together with friends for an evening of string quartet reading. In 1983, he got the idea of writing a short piece for his quartet to read, never intending to do anything further with it. The fun aspect of the two movements (the first and third of the present work) he wrote for this occasion was indicated not only by the 19th-century romantic style of the piece, but by his jocular appending of the subtitle, 'Watergate Lament,'to the quartet. After Canfield's quartet read the work, it was thrown into a drawer and forgotten until the Spring of 1988 when violinist Glenn Basham (then concertmaster of the Ft. Wayne Philharmonic, and who had commissioned the composer for his second violin sonata) was visiting Canfield, and asked him if he had written any string quartets. Canfield made a copy of these two movements for Basham to try out with his quartet. Shortly later, he received a call from the violinist askin