String Quartets Op. 59, 74, 95 Henle Music Folios Softcover
String Quartets Op. 59, 74, 95 Henle Music Folios Softcover
- Henle Music Folios
- Henle Urtext Edition
- Softcover
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Paul Mies
- 88.95 (US)
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 the autograph title “Quartett serioso.” All five quartets are mature masterworks which demand high interpretative and technical mastery.
Song List
- Beethoven: Quartet C major op. 59,3 [Rasumowsky] C major op. 59,3
- Beethoven: Quartet E minor op. 59,2 [Rasumowsky] e minor op. 59,2
- Beethoven: Quartet E flat majeur op. 74 [Harp Quartet] E flat major op. 74
- Beethoven: Quartet f minor op. 95
- Beethoven: Quartet F major op. 59,1 [Rasumowsky] F major op. 59,1
Instrumentation
- String Quartet
Product Details
- #HL 51480268
- 884088174644
- HN268
- 9.25"
- 12.25"
- 256 Pages
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