Ode to Henry Purcell : for soprano and string quartet (1984) / Vivian Fine ; text by Rainer Maria Rilke and Gerard Manley Hopkins. 1984 Feb. 4.

Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889

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Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in Stratford, Essex, on July 28, 1844, as the eldest of nine children to Manley and Catherine Hopkins, née Smith. From 1863 to 1867, Hopkins studied classics at Balliol College, Oxford University, taking first-class degrees in both Classics and Greats. At Oxford, Hopkins befriended the poet Robert Bridges. In 1866, Hopkins converted to Catholicism. Upon entering the Society of Jesus in 1868, he destroyed the poetry he had written up to that point. Hopkins then stud...

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Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695

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This version 1943.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Suite from the opera : the Fairy queen / Henry Purcell ; selection and orchestration by Harold Byrns. 1943. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 53445289 From the opera composed ca. 1689. Transcribed 1936.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Passacaglia : from Dido and Aeneas / Henry Purcell ; transcribed by Charles O'Connell. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall Colle...

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926

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Rilke wrote to Werfel in 1913 after reading Werfel's first 2 books of poems, Der Weltfreund and Wir sind. They met for the first time in the same year. Ruth Siebe-Rilke was the daughter of Rilke and Clara Westhoff; here she signs her name Ruth Fritzsche-Rilke. She was at that time the administrator of the Rilke family archive, located in Fischerhude, near Bremen, Germany. (More recently the archive has been located in Gernsbach.) From the description of Correspondence with Franz Werf...

Fine, Vivian, 1913-2000

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Vivian Fine (b. Sept. 28, 1913, in Chicago; d. Mar. 20, 2000, in Bennington, Vt.) was an American composer, pianist, and educator. From the description of Vivian Fine music manuscripts, 1927-2004 (bulk 1929-1994). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71128297 Commissioned for the San Francisco Symphony's 1982-83 season by Dr. and Mrs. Ralph I. Dorfman.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Drama for orchestra : after paintings by Edvard Munch / Vivan Fine. ...