Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 4 movements:
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Composition Year | 1957 |
Genre Categories | Quartets; For 2 violins, viola, cello; Scores featuring the violin; |
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Work Title | String Quartet |
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Composer | Fine, Vivian |
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IVF 71 |
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 4 movements:
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Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 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 DurationAvg. Duration | 19 minutes |
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Modern |
Piece Style | Modern |
Instrumentation | 2 violins, viola, cello |
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.
The Claremont Quartet…gave a splendid reading of Miss Fine’s lyrical and spontaneous String Quartet.