String Quartets Book IV Op. 20

Suite for Wind instruments

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Joseph Haydn

String Quartets Book IV Op. 20

Suite for Wind instruments

Joseph Haydn

String Quartets Book IV Op. 20

Suite for Wind instruments

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Description:

  • Pages: 116
  • Release: 30.01.2009
  • Weight: 243 g
  • Opus: 20
  • Genre: Classical Music, Classical Music (Classical Era)
  • 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 close three of the six quartets are a particular structural feature.?