String Quartets Op. 59, 74, 95

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Ludwig van Beethoven

String Quartets Op. 59, 74, 95

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String Quartets Op. 59, 74, 95

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Description:

  • Language: German English French
  • Pages: 248
  • Release: 15.07.2002
  • Weight: 955 g
  • Opus: 59 74 95
  • Genre: Classical Music, Classical Music (Classical Era)
  • 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.