Prelude for String Quartet (Fine, Vivian)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	1
Composition Year	1937
Genre Categories	Preludes; Quartets; For 2 violins, viola, cello; Scores featuring the violin; Scores featuring the viola; Scores featuring the cello; For 4 players

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Performances

Recordings

Complete Performance
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MP3 file (audio)
Rhymesandchymes (2013/4/26)

Publisher Info.	Vivian Fine estate
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Misc. Notes	From an old recording with so-so audio quality. Uploaded because it's the only extant recording, to my knowledge.
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Sheet Music

Scores

Complete Score
*#216898 - 0.48MB, 4 pp. - 0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 562×⇩ - rhymesandchymes

PDF typeset by Paul Hawkins
rhymesandchymes (2012/5/8)

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General Information

Work Title	Prelude for String Quartet
Alternative. Title
Composer	Fine, Vivian
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	IVF 57
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	1
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1937
First Performance.	1939-03-26, New York City, Town Hall Club, League of Composers’ Concert. Frederick Dvonch, Dorothy Kesner, violins, Edward Neikrug,viola, and George Neikrug, cello
Average DurationAvg. Duration	2 3/4 minutes
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Modern
Piece Style	Modern
Instrumentation	2 violins, viola, cello

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Sessions did not go in for fulsome praise. “I like it” was for him quite a compliment. However, he was much taken by the opening of [Prelude for String Quartet]. He said he wished he could have written it and said I had “aural vision.” This remark sustained me for many years.

—Vivian Fine, quoted in Heidi Von Gunden, The Music of Vivian Fine, Scarecrow Press, 1999, 25

Prelude for String Quartet is similar to Piece for Muted Strings in terms of gesture, meter, tempo and tonality, but demonstrates how Fine broke the reins of tonality. Her acute hearing was able to take a simple motif…and expand it into long sinuous lines. Although the Prelude has an A major key signature and does end on an A major triad, tonality is not a constraint. The Prelude’s beginning has a spaciousness that suggests a longer piece (it is a mere thirty-four measures)…. Although the Piece for Muted Strings and the Prelude work well as a pair, they were not originally intended as such.

—Von Gunden, The Music of Vivian Fine, 26-27