String Quartet No. 8 (Hill)
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String Quartet No. 8 in A major, Stiles 1.2.3.3 SQ8,[1] by Australian composer Alfred Hill was finished half month after his Seventh: the manuscript score and parts, which are preserved in the National Library of Australia, are dated 6 December 1934.[2] While the previous quartet was a somewhat transitive composition from his middle period, with the Eighths one starts counting Hill's late quartets. It is thematically unified and has many impressionistic features.[3] In 1950s Hill arranged it into a string symphony (No. 8), the first known performance of which was on 27 March 1957.[4] The approximate duration of the quartet is 25–28 minutes.[5]