FOMITE

A significant contribution to contemporary string quartet literature appearing here in a facsimile edition in the composer’s handwriting

About the Composer

Bertold Francke

composer, violinist, violist

is an MD, PhD, Psychiatrist

and ex-director of the Vermont State Hospital.

He lives in Glover, Vermont, 

where he is one of the few puppeteers 

strong enough to carry the right hand of Mother Earth 

as she annually gathers up her flocks.