Epilogue “Hommage à Edith Wharton” is a single-movement string quartet whose title suggests reflection, afterthought, memory and literary resonance. The work stands as a chamber homage to Edith Wharton, shaped for the intimate dialogue of two violins, viola and cello.

Commissioned by Close Encounters with Music and premiered at Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall, the quartet brings Auerbach’s literary imagination into a concentrated instrumental frame.

An epilogue as chamber music: a literary after-image carried by four strings.

Edith Wharton. A chamber homage to one of America’s defining literary voices.

One Movement. A concise sixteen-minute quartet in a single span.

Tanglewood. First performed at Ozawa Hall in 2005.

Written in 2005, Epilogue “Hommage à Edith Wharton” belongs to Auerbach’s broader chamber catalogue, where literary, visual and musical ideas often meet in compact, charged forms.

As chamber music, it is presented here with the official Boosey & Hawkes / Sikorski work and purchase pages rather than rental-material links.