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Pro Arte Quartet collection, 1916-2012
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The Pro Arte Quartet collection includes negatives and photographs of members of the quartet from the 1940s through 1990s, newspaper clippings, programs from the 1910s onward, correspondence, press...
The Pro Arte Quartet collection includes negatives and photographs of members of the quartet from the 1940s through 1990s, newspaper clippings, programs from the 1910s onward, correspondence, press releases, planning documents and materials created for the centennial anniversary of the Pro Arte Quartet in 2011-2012, and audio recordings on cassette and CD.
This collection contains materials created between 1916 and 2012. It primarily consists of photographs and negatives of the Pro Arte Quartet's various members and configurations over the years, Germain Prévost's music programs, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music programs, newspaper clippings on members such as Germain Prévost and Rudolph Kolisch, press releases, Wisconsin Idea magazines from 1952 containing articles on Kolisch and the Pro Arte Quartet, materials created for the centennial anniversary of the Pro Arte Quartet, audio recordings on cassette and compact disc, and miscellaneous ephemera.
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- Mixed Materials
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- English
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- 1.11 cubic feet (3 letter document boxes, 1 film reel)
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- on1114319928
- This collection includes no known access restrictions.
- Collection materials may be subject to laws governing rights. Researchers are solely responsible for determining the rights status of the materials they use. Permission may be required for some uses such as publication or reproduction.
- The Pro Arte Quartet was founded by conservatory students in Brussels in 1912. Shortly thereafter, they became the Court Quartet to Queen Elizabeth of Belgium before touring Europe in 1919. In 1926, the quartet made their debut in New York, and began touring the United States. On one of these tours, in May of 1940, the quartet was performing in Madison, Wisconsin when Nazi forces invaded Belgium. The University of Wisconsin offered the quartet a permanent campus home in response, and thereafter the University of Wisconsin Pro Arte residency came into being, the first such residency at a major American university. In 1944, Rudolph Kolisch took up leadership of the Pro Arte Quartet and became a professor in the School of Music. In the late 1950s, the rest of the quartet likewise joined the School of Music faculty in addition to functioning as artists-in-residence. The Pro Arte Quartet celebrated its centennial in 2012, and the residency at University of Wisconsin--Madison continues to this day.
- Collection materials are in English and French.
- Transferred from Mills Music Library, 2018. Some materials, gift of Sarah Schaffer and Susanna Watling. For additional provenance informatoin, consult University Archives staff.