Suite for String Orchestra

• Frank Bridge composed this suite over Christmas of 1909.¹ The score is dated “December 1909 – January 1910.”²
• Bridge was a violist and a professional string quartet player; Phillip Brookes, in his preface to this work for Faber, notes the influence of Bridge’s string quartet expertise in this piece.³
• This work gained popularity after Bridge conducted it at a Proms concert on October 8, 1920.⁴

Movements 

1. Prelude 
2. Intermezzo 
3. Nocturne 
4. Finale⁵

1. Phillip Brookes, preface to Frank Bridge, Suite for String Orchestra (London: Faber, 2013).
2. Frank Bridge, Suite for String Orchestra (London: Goodwin & Tab, 1920), 28.
3. Brookes, preface to Frank Bridge, Suite for String Orchestra.
4. Ibid.
5. Frank Bridge, Suite for String Orchestra (London: Goodwin & Tab, 1920).