Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartets Op. 59, 74, 95
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartets Op. 59, 74, 95
- Instrumentation String Quartet (2 Violins, Viola and Cello)
- Composer Ludwig van Beethoven
- Editor Paul Mies
- Edition Study Score (Urtext)
- Publisher G. Henle Verlag
- Order no. HN9268
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Description:
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.