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Haydn, Franz Joseph: String Quartets Book IV op. 20

Sun Quartets

pocket score

Setting: String Quartet
Period: Classic
Length: 116 pages
Weight: 0.243 kg
Published: 2024
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN9208
Other reference: HN 9208
ISMN: 9790201892085
This study edition complements the parts of the String Quartets op. 20 that have already been published in Henle Urtext (HN 208)- a new preface by Christin Heitmann provides illuminating background information. Haydn did not assign the nickname ''Sun Quartets'': it alludes to an edition of the time, in which the title page was decorated with a rising sun. The Quartets op. 20 are the last series in a group of earlier string quartets, but are clearly ahead of their time. The demanding fugues which
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