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First name: Frank
Last name: Bridge
Dates: 1879-1910
Category: Quartet
Nationality: british
Opus name: Piano Quartet (1902)
Publisher: unpublished; manuscript score in possession Anthony Burns Cox, parts at the Royal College of Music
Peculiarities: See:http://www.fibsonline.co.uk/; and: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pianokwartet_in_c_mineur. Bridge suppressed this work as a early work
Information: Bridge was born in Brighton and studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1899 to 1903 under Charles Villiers Stanford and others. He played the viola in a number of string quartets, most notably the English String Quartet, and conducted, sometimes deputising for Henry Wood, before devoting himself to composition, receiving the patronage of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. He privately tutored a number of pupils, most famously Benjamin Britten, who later championed his teacher's music and paid homage to him in the Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge (1937), based on a theme from the second of Bridge's Three Idylls for String Quartet (1906). Bridge died in Eastbourne.