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Beethoven, Ludwig van: String Quartet in Bb major op. 130 and Great Fugue op. 133

(Cadenbach, Rainer)

pocket score

Setting: String Quartet
Period: Classic
Length: 104 pages
Weight: 0.201 kg
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN9741
Other reference: HN 9741
ISMN: 9790201897417
We have now come full circle ╩ this edition concludes our Urtext series of the complete Beethoven string quartets. The ending of this highly expressive work, at whose centre is the famous ''Cavatina'', was originally the ''Große Fuge''. Yet a contemporary critic felt that this was ''unintelligible, like Chinese''. At the urging of the publisher Beethoven replaced it with a newly composed finale and published the ''Große Fuge'' with a new opus number. Ever since, it has often been performed separ
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