String Quartet (Fine, Vivian)

		Movements/Sections 4 movements: Allegro appassionato Allegro di bravura Lento Allegretto a la danza Composition Year 1957 Genre Categories Quartets; For 2 violins, viola, cello; Scores featuring the violin; Scores featuring the viola; Scores featuring the cello; For 4 players

Sheet Music

• Scores and Parts (2)

Scores and Parts

 Score
*#195328 - 7.14MB, 41 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - !N/!N/!N - 83x⇩

PDF scanned by Paul Hawkins
rhymesandchymes (2012/3/30)

 Parts
*#195329 - 8.52MB, 56 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - !N/!N/!N - 43x⇩

PDF scanned by Paul Hawkins
rhymesandchymes (2012/3/30)

Publisher Info.:

Vivian Fine Estate

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General Information

Work Title	String Quartet
Alternative Title

Composer	Fine, Vivian
Movements/Sections	4 movements: Allegro appassionato Allegro di bravura Lento Allegretto a la danza
Year/Date of Composition	1957
First Performance	1957-11-21, Skinner Recital Hall, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, Claremont String Quartet: Marc Goetlieb and Vladimir Weisman, violins, William Schoen, viola, and Irving Klein, cello
Average Duration	19 minutes
Piece Style	Modern
Instrumentation	2 violins, viola, cello

Misc. Comments

With A Guide to the Life Expectancy of a Rose and the String Quartet Fine seems to have advanced to a more mature level of composition. The angular lines of her early music are replaced by longer and more graceful curves. She is comfortable with large-scale designs, and although the Quartet has no text, the music has a dramatic quality that was such an important aspect of A Guide. Its humor is replaced with a seriousness and intensity that changes from movement to movement while maintaining an overall expressiveness.

Heidi Von Gunden, The Music of Vivian Fine, Scarecrow Press, 1999

Review

The Claremont Quartet…gave a splendid reading of Miss Fine’s lyrical and spontaneous String Quartet.

—The New York Times, February 9, 1959