String Quartet No. 6, 2014-2017

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Containers:
Folio-Box 5 (MS Acc19.023)
Component identifier:
File 26
Content Summary:

Includes pencil manuscript and sketches for String Quartet No. 6, commissioned by the Flinders Quartet with support from David and Kaye Birks, Julian Burnside AO QC and Ben Quilty.

First performance by the Flinders Quartet, Ballarat, Victoria, 28 October 2018. Also includes running sheet for silent film – Le sculpteur express – for which 'Scherzo perpetuo' was originally commissioned, and envelope bearing first attempt.

Movement 4 of the pieces, Sunrise with Wedding Dresses was commissioned by Ben Quilty to accompany his short film The Dress, part of his installation "Dresses for Soulaf" at Art Gallery of South Australia, November 2016.

Immediate source of acquisition:
The first consignment was donated to the Library by Andrew Ford under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme in February 2001. Further papers were received in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2014 and 2019.

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Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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