Irving Fine

Irving Gifford Fine ( born December 3, 1914 in Boston, Massachusetts, † August 23, 1962 ) was an American composer.

Fine graduated from Harvard University with Edward Burlingame Hill, Walter Piston and Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky and 1938-1939 in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. From 1945 to 1950 he worked as an assistant professor at Harvard University, after which he taught at Brandeis University, where he became professor in 1954.

He composed a symphony, an orchestral suite, a lament for string orchestra, chamber music, choirs and songs.

Works

  • Alice in Wonderland, Three Pieces for SSA, 1942
  • The Choral New Yorker, cantata, 1944
  • Fantasia for String Trio, 1946
  • Violin Sonata, 1946
  • Music for Piano, 1947
  • Toccata Concertante for Orchestra, 1948
  • Partita for wind quintet, 1948
  • The Hour -glass, six pieces for SATB a cappella, 1949
  • McCord 's Menagerie, four pieces a cappella for TBB
  • String Quartet, 1952
  • Mutability, six songs for mezzo - soprano and piano, 1952
  • Serious Song and Lament for String Orchestra, 1955
  • Childhood fables for grownups, six songs for medium voice and piano on texts by Gertrude Norman, 1955
  • Diversion for Orchestra, 1960
  • Romanza for wind quintet, 1961
  • Symphony, 1962
  • Maggie, musical by Stephen Crane, 1962 ( unfinished)
  • Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
  • American composer
  • University teachers ( Brandeis University)
  • Born in 1914
  • Died in 1962
  • Man
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