Commissions by PAQ

Quatuor Pro Arte of Brussels

The group apparently never issued commissions of its own, but frequently presented works commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge or her Foundation.

Pro Arte Quartet of the University of Wisconsin

With date of composition; * indicates also premiered by the PAQ, with date given; # indicates recording by PAQ.

Adler, Samuel. *String Quartet no. 5 (1969). November 11, 1970

Bolcom, William. *#Piano Quintet no. 2 (2011). March 24, 2012

Diesendruck, Tamar. *Quartet no. 3, “Dagger” (with Koussevitzky Foundation, 2005). April 22, 2006

Fennelly, Brian. *#Quartet no. 2, “Arias and Interludes” (with Koussevitzky Foundation, 2001). December 3, 2002

Harbison, John. *#String Quartet no. 5 (2011). April 1, 2012

Imbrie, Andrew. *#String Quartet no. 4(1969). November 17, 1969

———. *#String Quartet no. 5 (1987). November 8, 1987

Jalbert, Pierre. *#Howl, for clarinet and strings (2014). September 26, 2014

Lerdahl, Fred. *#String Quartet no. 2 (with NEA, 1980–82, 2010). October 22, 1982

Luckhardt, Hilmar. *String Quartet no. 4 (1970). December 3, 1971

Mays, Walter. *#Quartet no. 2, “Dreaming Butterfly” (2011). October 22, 2011

Mernier, Benoît. *#String Quartet no. 3 (with Koussevitzky Foundation, 2013. February 28, 2014

Sessions, Roger. *Quartet no. 2 (1951). May 28, 1951

Shapey, Ralph. *#String Quartet no. 9 (with School of Music, 1995) May 4, 1996

Dedications to PAQ

Quatuor Pro Arte

* indicates also premiered by QPA

Bartók, Béla. Quartet no. 4 (1928)

Cartan, Jean. *Quartet no. 2 (1930)

Casella, Alfredo. *Concerto for String Quartet (1924)

Cowell, Henry. *Quartet no. 3, “Mosaic” (1925)

Fitelberg, Jerzy. *Quartet no. 2 (1928)

Gruenberg, Louis. Four Indiscretions, op. 20 (1922)

Honegger, Arthur. Quartet no. 2 (1934–35)

Houdret, Charles. Quartet (1928)

Huybrechts, Albert. *Quartet no. 2 (1927)

Jacobi, Frederick. Quartet no. 2 (1933)

Martinø, Bohuslav. *Quartet Concerto (1931)

Milhaud, Darius. La cantate de l’enfant et de la mère (1938) [also ded. to Collaer]

———. *Quartet no. 7 (1925)

Reichel, Bernard. *Little Quartet (Sonatine) for Strings (1924)

Rieti, Vittorio. *Madrigal in Four Parts (1927)

———. Quartet no. 1 (1926)

Tansman, Alexandre. Quartet no. 3 (1925)