Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
Date | Event |
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1914 December 3 | Born Irving Gifford Fine in Boston, Massachusetts |
1933 | Studied composition at Harvard University with Edward Burlingame Hill and Walter Piston, and choral conducting with Archibad Thompson Davison |
1938-1939 | Studied composition with Nadia Boulanger at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts; traveled to Paris to continue studying with Boulanger at the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau |
1939-1950 | Began teaching composition at Harvard; developed professional relationships with Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Arthur Berger, Lukas Foss, and Harold Shapero |
1946-1957 | Served as a member of the faculty of the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood |
1946-1947 | Composed Toccata Concertante, written for the Boston Symphony and premiered by Serge Koussevitzky in 1948 |
1947 | Became a student in Serge Koussevitzky’s conducting class at Tanglewood |
1947 | Composed Music for Piano, a suite dedicated to Nadia Boulanger’s sixtieth birthday |
1950 | Appointed to faculty of Brandeis University, where he helped develop the School of Creative Arts and served as its chair |
1952 | Commissioned by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, Fine composed his String Quartet, which incorporated a twelve-tone serial approach |
1962 | Composed Symphony 1962, which demonstrated Fine’s serial techniques, contrapuntal textures, and colorful orchestrations |
1962 August 23 | Died of heart disease in Natick, Massachusetts |