Arthur Foote - Piano Quartet No. 1, Op. 23 (1890)

Arthur William Foote (March 5, 1853 in Salem, Massachusetts – April 8, 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American classical composer, and a member of the "Boston Six." The other five were George Whitefield Chadwick, Amy Beach, Edward MacDowell, John Knowles Paine, and Horatio Parker.

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Piano Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 23 (1890)
Dedication: Herrn Professor John Knowles Paine

I. Allegro comodo (0:00)
II. Scherzo - Allegro vivace (6:52)
III. Adagio, ma con moto (12:06)
IV. Allegro non troppo (22:31)

James Barbagallo, piano and the Da Vinci Quartet

Arthur Foote was a Harvard graduate and the first noted American classical composer to be trained entirely in the U.S., in some sense he is to music what American poets were to literature before Walt Whitman.

Foote was an early advocate of Brahms and Wagner and promoted performances of their music. Foote was an active music teacher and wrote a number of pedagogical works, including Modern Harmony in Its Theory and Practice (1905), written with Walter R. Spalding. It was republished as Harmony (1969). He also wrote Some Practical Things in Piano-Playing (1909) and Modulation and Related Harmonic Questions (1919). He contributed many articles to music journals, including "Then and Now, Thirty Years of Musical Advance in America" in Etude (1913) and "A Bostonian Remembers" in Musical Quarterly (1937).

Arthur Foote dedicated his Piano Quartet No. 1 to John Knowles Paine (January 9, 1839 – April 25, 1906) who was the first American-born composer to achieve fame for large-scale orchestral music. The senior member of a group of composers collectively known as the Boston Six, Paine was one of those responsible for the first significant body of concert music by composers from the United States. The Boston Six's other five members were Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, Edward MacDowell, George Chadwick, and Horatio Parker.