The parts and their corresponding seasons are as follows: The String Quartet in Four Parts is based partly on the Indian view of the seasons, in which the four seasons-spring, summer, autumn and winter-are associated each with a particular force–those of creation, preservation, destruction and quiescence. It was premièred on August 12 the same year at the Black Mountain College. Prior to beginning to work on the piece, he told his parents that he wanted to compose a work which would praise silence without actually using it after completing the first movement he was so fascinated with the new way to work that he wrote in a letter: "This piece is like the opening of another door the possibilities implied are unlimited." The piece was completed in 1950 in New York City and dedicated to Lou Harrison. Cage began writing the quartet in 1949 in Paris.
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