The Composers String Quartet was a string quartet best known for performances of new works by contemporary composers,[1] including quartets by Elliott Carter[2] and Ruth Crawford Seeger.
[4] The group has performed quartets by more than 60 American composers, and has toured abroad extensively.
[5] The quartet was founded in 1965,[6] and remained active until the late 1990s.
During the early 1970s it was the quartet-in-residence at New England Conservatory, where it sponsored a biennial composition prize.
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