Title: Pro Arte Quartet collection
Inclusive Dates: 1916-2012

Creators:

• Pro Arte Quartet

• University of Wisconsin--Madison. School of Music.

• Prévost, Germain, 1891-1987

• Kolisch, Rudolf, 1896-1978

Unique Identifier: uac46

Quantity: Collection includes negatives, photographs, audio cassettes, compact discs, paper documents, and one 16mm reel of film.

• 1.11 cubic feet
• 3 letter document boxes, 3 audio cassettes, 4 compact discs, and 1 reel of film

Repository:

University of Wisconsin-Madison. University Archives and Records Management

Abstract:

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.

Language: Collection materials are in English and French.

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-ua-uac46

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Transferred from Mills Music Library, 2018. Some materials, gift of Sarah Schaffer and Susanna Watling. For additional provenance information, consult University Archives staff.

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.

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.

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.

String quartets -- 20th century

Box [89138276103]   1   folder 1	School of Music Programs, 1939-1968
Box [89138276103]   1   folder 2	School of Music Programs, 1969-1989
Box [89138276103]   1   folder 3	School of Music Programs, 1990-2000
Box [89138276103]   1   folder 4	News clippings, Magazines, and Pro Arte Quartet Ephemera 1958-2011
Box [89138276103]   1   folder 5	Germain Prevost Programs, 1916-1919
Box [89138276103]   1   folder 6	Germain Prevost Programs, 1920-1922
Box [89138276103]   1   folder 7	Germain Prevost Programs, 1923-1924
Box [89138276103]   1   folder 8	Germain Prevost Programs, 1932-1939
Box [89138276137]   2   folder 1	Germain Prevost Programs, 1940-1962
Box [89138276137]   2   folder 2	Germain Prevost Programs and Ephemera, circa 1940
Box [89138276137]   2   folder 3	Germain Prevost's Notebook, 1923-1925
Box [89138276137]   2   folder 4	Germain Prevost: Newspaper clippings, 1945-1976
Box [89138276137]   2   folder 5	Photocopy of Elegie, signed by Germain Prevost 1971-1975
Box [89138276137]   2   folder 6	Correspondence and Materials from Suzanne Watling on Rudolph Kolisch, 1944, 1994-1995
Box [89138276137]   2   folder 7	School of Music Programs, 2001-2011
Box [89138276137]   2   folder 8	Centennial Anniversary Celebration Book and Ephemera, 2011-2012
Box [89138276137]   2   folder 9	Correspondence, Press Releases, and Ephemera 1941-1959
Box [89138276137]   2   folder 10	Wisconsin Idea Magazine and Various Programs, 1941-1952
Box [89138276137]   2   folder 11	News clippings, Articles, and Pro Arte Ephemera 1955-2011
Box [89138276129]   3   folder 1	Quartet Photos, circa 1940-1950s
Box [89138276129]   3   folder 2	Quartet Photos and Negatives, 1944-1981
Box [89138276129]   3   folder 3	Kolisch and Leibowitz Photos, 1967
Box [89138276129]   3   folder 4	Centennial Press Pack on CD-Rom, 2011-2012
Box [89138276129]   3   folder 5	Quartet Photos, 1940-2011
Box [89138276129]   3   folder 6	Quartet Photos: Brosa, Halleux, Prevost, and Sopkin 1942-1943
Box [89138276129]   3   folder 7	Quartet Photos: Paulu, Moore, Blum, and Creitz 1967-1973
Box [89138276129]   3   folder 8	Quartet Photos: Paulu, Blum, Blum, and Karp 1976-1988
Box [89138276129]   3   folder 9	Quartet Photos: Paulu, Kim, Blum, and Karp 1981-1988
Box [89138276129]   3   folder 10	Quartet Photos: Perry, Beia, Chrisholm, an Karp circa 1995
Box [89138276129]   3   folder 11	Quartet Photos and Negatives: Early Years, undated
Box [89138276129]   3   folder 12	WHA Quartet Negatives, 1945
Box [89138276129]   3   folder 13	Quartet Photos: Miscellaneous Event Photos, 1995-1996
Audio [89138215785]   uam006504	Audio Cassette: Raw Testimonials Uncut: Charming Stories - Tom Moore and Walter Gray on Rudolph Kolisch, date unknown
Audio [89138215769]   uam006505	Audio Cassette: Germain Prevost: Reminiscence of the Pro Arte Quartet (1920-1945), Part 1 1980-09-01
Audio [89138215777]   uam006506	Audio Cassette: Germain Prevost: Reminiscence of the Pro Arte Quartet (1920-1945), Part 2 1979-11-14
Audio [89138215736]   uam006507	CD: Wisconsin Public Radio: Music from Wisconsin with Anders Yocom - Pro Arte Quartet Archive, Part 1 2012-04-15
Audio [89138215744]   uam006508	CD: Wisconsin Public Radio: Music from Wisconsin with Anders Yocom - Pro Arte Quartet Archive, Part 2 2012-05-20
Audio [89138215751]   uam006509	CD: Wisconsin Public Radio: Music from Wisconsin with Anders Yocom - Pro Arte Quartet Archive, Part 3 2012-06-10
Disc [89138215793]   uam006510	CD: Pro Arte Quartet: Centennial Press Packet , date unknown
Film [89138215801]   uam006511	16mm Film: An Evening with the Pro Arte Quartet, 1980