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MS Mus. 1842/1
- Record Id:
- 040-003452411
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003436949
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100079329947.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1842/1
- Title:
- Ralph Vaughan Williams: 'String Quartet in A minor, for Jean on her Birthday', full score
- Scope & Content:
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ff. i, 1-32, ‘String quartet in A minor, for Jean on her birthday’; 1942-1947. Full score, autograph, in pencil.
The work is in four movements (Prelude; Largo; Scherzo; Epilogue). The first two movements (ff. 1-24), composed 1942-1943, are in a limp binding and paginated 1-34. The last two movements, composed 1943-1944 with some later revision, are separately paginated 1-14. Evidence from a letter in a private collection (see The Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams, VW5158) suggests that the first two movements were composed for Jean Stewart’s birthday in February 1943, but that Vaughan Williams had not been able to complete the scherzo or final movement in time.
The main theme of the third movement (‘Scherzo’) is from Vaughan Williams’s music for the film 49th Parallel (see annotation in the viola part f. 26). The theme from the finale is from music intended for a film about Joan of Arc, and has been titled 'For Jean, from Joan'.
The work was first performed by the Menges String Quartet at the National Gallery, London, 12 October 1944. It was published by Oxford University Press in 1947, incorporating some minor revisions.
For autograph manuscript parts see Add MS 52290.
For a preliminary sketch for the quartet, see Add MS 50371 A, f. 9v.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Music Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003436949
040-003452411 - Is part of:
- MS Mus. 1842 : Ralph Vaughan Williams: String Quartet No. 2, in A minor. Score, and letters to Jean Stewart.
MS Mus. 1842/1 : Ralph Vaughan Williams: 'String Quartet in A minor, for Jean on her Birthday', full score - Hierarchy:
- 032-003436949[0001]/040-003452411
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1842
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (i + 32 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1942
- End Date:
- 1947
- Date Range:
- 1942-1947
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Paper (ff. 1-25, 360mm x 263mm; ff. 26-32, 374mm x 280mm)
- Former Internal References:
- Music Loan 108
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958. Quartets, violins (2), viola, cello, no. 2, A minor
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Add MS 50371 A
Add MS 52290