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Beethoven, Ludwig van: String Quartets op. 59, 74, 95

(Mies, Paul)

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Setting: String Quartet
Period: Classic
Length: 248 pages
Weight: 0.955 kg
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN0268
Other reference: HN 268
ISMN: 9790201802688
The five string quartets in this volume are generally designated as Beethoven's ''middle quartets,'' even though stylistically they do not all build a closed unit. More than three years lie between the inception of the three quartets op. 59 (1806) and the quartet op. 74 (1809/10). In the quartets op. 59, Beethoven sprinkled several Russian folksong themes - an homage to Prince Razumovsky, who had commissioned the works.This is why the pieces are often called the ''Russian Quartets.'' The next quartet, op. 74 in E flat major, was also given a nickname: thanks to extended pizzicato passages in the first movement, it is frequently called the ''Harp Quartet''. The f minor Quartet op. 95, in turn, bears in the autograph title ''Quartett serioso.'' All five quartets are mature masterworks which demand high interpretative and technical mastery.
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