Basic Details

Title
Eight Portraits for Violin Alone
Publication Type
Compilation
Availability
Available
Category
Solo Instrumental (with or without Piano Accompaniment)
Instrumentation
vln
Duration
12'
Publisher
Boosey & Hawkes
Premiere
  • World: Salle Majestic, Paris, France, November 14th, 1928 (Lucien Schwartz, violin)
Edition/Catalog #
9790051350773 (ISMN)
Member Works
  1. Señorita Juanita de Medina Accompanied by Her Mother (1928)
  2. Madame Marthe-Marthine (1928)
  3. Georges Hugnet: Poet and Man of Letters (1928)
  4. Miss Gertrude Stein As A Young Girl (1928)
  5. Cliquet-Pleyel in F (1928)
  6. Mrs. Chester Whitin Lasell (1928)
  7. Sauguet: From Life (1928)
  8. Ruth Smallens (1940)

Cataloging Information

Copyright
©1981 Boosey & Hawkes
Year Composed
1928-1940
Date Composed
1928-1940
Year Published
1981
M.S. Location
The Virgil Thomson Papers at Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University
Cardell Number
P38[A]
Meckna Number
W166

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