Questionnaire for Author and Composer. Printed BMI contract relative to Carter's composition Prelude, Fanfare and Polka for small orchestra, signed

by the composer by Elliott Carter

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Folio. Completed in manuscript, in all likelihood by Helen Carter, the composer's wife. With the composer's full signature at foot. No date, but ca. 1945. In addition to requesting basic information such as name, address, and nearest living relatives, the questionnaire asks about the composition itself. Interestingly, in response to the question regarding date of composition, Carter answers Partly in 1938 and partly 1944. Grove states that the work dates from 1938 and is

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