The Irving Fine Collection

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Irving Fine and Rosendo E. Santos, Jr.
Irving Fine and Rosendo E. Santos, Jr., Tanglewood, 1956
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Overview

The career of Irving Fine (1914-1962), composer, conductor, writer, and academic, is documented in the Library of Congress Music Division by approximately 4,350 items from the Irving Fine Collection. Comprising manuscript and printed music, sketchbooks, writings, personal and business correspondence, scrapbooks, programs, clippings, and sound recordings, the collection contains most of the creative work of this colleague of Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein.

This online presentation presents a selection of 57 photographs, a sketchbook that includes sketches for the woodwind Partita and a string quartet, a manuscript score for the String Quartet (1952), a recorded performance of the Quartet, and the finding aid for the collection.

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The Life of Irving Fine

Essay

A Biographical Sketch