Download or read book The String Quartets of Haydn Mozart and Beethoven written by Christoph Wolff and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This broad spectrum of papers and extensive scholarly debate focuses on a quintessential repertoire of musical works from the classical era. The autograph sketches, drafts, and scores of various kinds are shown to be central sources for our understanding of the genesis and history, as well as for the analysis and performance, of the compositions.
Download or read book Mozart The Haydn Quartets written by John Irving and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-08 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The six string quartets dedicated to his friend Joseph Haydn represent a turning point in Mozart's compositional development. In addition to providing a full synopsis of each quartet this book examines the music in relation to Mozart's earlier quartets, considers the genesis of the six 'Haydn' quartets through close examination of the autograph revisions and looks at contemporary eighteenth-century analytical models. John Irving also charts the reception of the quartets, drawing upon a broad range of sources: Mozart's letters and diary entries, early newspaper reports, harmony/compositional textbooks, contemporary criticism and early biographies.
Download or read book The string Quartets of Haydn Mozart and Beethoven written by Christoph Wolff and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The String Quartets of Haydn Mozart and Beethoven written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Album of Easy String Quartets Volume II Pieces by Bach Haydn Mozart Beethoven Schumann Mendelssohn and others written by Alfred Music and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Titles: * BACH (Sarabande from the first French Suite) * BACH (Loure from Third Suite for Cello) * DITTERSDORF (Minuet from Quartet in E-Flat major) * HAYDN (Adagio from Quartet in G Major) * HAYDN (Minuet from Quartet in D minor) * MOZART (Ave Verum Corpus) * MOZART (Andante from Quartet No. 8) * MENDELSSOHN (Intermezzo from Quartet, op.13) * MENDELSSOHN (Song Without Words, No. 35) * SCHUMANN (From the Album for the Young) * SCHUMANN (Song, "To Sunshine," op. 36) * SCHUBERT (Moment Musical)
Download or read book Beethoven for a Later Age written by Edward Dusinberre and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the history of the composition of Beethoven's string quartets as the backbone to his story, Edward Dusinberre - leader of the Takacs Quartet - recounts the life of the Quartet from its inception in Hungary, through emigration to the US and its present-day life of world renown. He also describes what it was like for him, as a young man fresh out of Julliard, to join the quartet as its (non-Hungarian) leader - a challenging task. Beethoven for a Later Age takes the reader inside the life of a quartet, vividly showing how four people make music together over a long period of time without becoming stale, or falling out. The key, the author argues, is in continual change and experiment - and these are at the heart of Beethoven's remarkable compositions for quartet.
Download or read book Mozart Haydn and Early Beethoven 1781 1802 written by Daniel Heartz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid portrait of Mozart and Haydn's greatest achievements and young Beethoven's works under their influence.
Download or read book The Four and the One written by David Rounds and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spotlighting the four women of the Lafayette Quartet, a leading Canadian ensemble, Rounds offers both a comprehensive history of the beloved instrumental form and an inside view of the complex world of professional quartet players, revealing the exultation and heatache that are the performing artists' daily fare. A treat for every music lover, whether player, listener or composer.
Download or read book The String Quartets of Beethoven written by William Kinderman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We do not understand music--it understands us." This aphorism by Theodor W. Adorno expresses the quandary and the fascination many listeners have felt in approaching Beethoven's late quartets. No group of compositions occupies a more central position in chamber music, yet the meaning of these works continues to stimulate debate. William Kinderman's The String Quartets of Beethoven stands as the most detailed and comprehensive exploration of the subject. It collects new work by leading international scholars who draw on a variety of historical sources and analytical approaches to offer fresh insights into the aesthetics of the quartets, probing expressive and structural features that have hitherto received little attention. This volume also includes an appendix with updated information on the chronology and sources of the quartets and a detailed bibliography.
Download or read book Mozart s String Quartets written by Thomas Frederick Dunhill and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inside Beethoven s Quartets written by Lewis Lockwood and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beethoven's string quartets have rewarded the engagement of scholars, performers, and audiences for almost two hundred years. This book and its accompanying recording invite you to experience three of these profound and beautiful works of music from the inside, with a renowned Beethoven scholar and the Juilliard String Quartet as your guides.
Download or read book Indivisible by Four written by Arnold Steinhardt and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-06-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author tells of his own development as a student, "of how he and his intrepid colleagues were converted to chamber music ... [and of how] four individualists master and then overcome the confining demands of ensemble playing."--Jacket.
Download or read book Six String Quartets Op 16 written by Emanuel Aloys Förster and published by A-R Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emanuel Aloys Förster (17481823) was among the most significant composers of Viennese chamber music at the turn of the nineteenth century. The three sets of six string quartets that he published are exemplary works in the genre at that time, fine examples of the intellectually and emotionally engaging nature of classical string quartets. Yet these works are not part of the standard chamber music repertoire, nor are they much discussed by musicologists, except in terms of the supposed influence between Förster and Beethoven. Thus our assessment of this important composer in general, and his contributions to Viennese string quartet culture around 1800 in particular, is hampered by a narrowness of vision. This new edition of Försters op. 16 (1798) shows that, like Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, he found the string quartet to be an ideal medium for trying out new compositional experiments, novelties that would appeal especially to the connoisseur. These innovations include rich and varied use of imitation in sonata form movements, songful unfolding in the slow movements, and humorous use of register and articulation in minuet and trio movements.
Download or read book The Great Haydn Quartets written by Hans Keller and published by George Braziller. This book was released on 1986 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the unifying themes and structures of Haydn's major string quartets, offering analyses of 45 of Haydn's 60-odd string quartets with the aim of providing interpretive clues for performers.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet written by Robin Stowell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion offers a concise and authoritative survey of the string quartet by eleven chamber music specialists. Its fifteen carefully structured chapters provide coverage of a stimulating range of perspectives previously unavailable in one volume. It focuses on four main areas: the social and musical background to the quartet's development; the most celebrated ensembles; string quartet playing, including aspects of contemporary and historical performing practice; and the mainstream repertory, including significant 'mixed ensemble' compositions involving string quartet. Various musical and pictorial illustrations and informative appendixes, including a chronology of the most significant works, complete this indispensable guide. Written for all string quartet enthusiasts, this Companion will enrich readers' understanding of the history of the genre, the context and significance of quartets as cultural phenomena, and the musical, technical and interpretative problems of chamber music performance. It will also enhance their experience of listening to quartets in performance and on recordings.
Download or read book Album of Easy String Quartets Volume III Pieces by Bach Haydn Mozart Beethoven Schumann Mendelssohn and others written by Alfred Music and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expertly arranged String Quartets from the Kalmus Edition series.
Download or read book Haydn String Quartets Op 50 written by W. Dean Sutcliffe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Op. 50 string quartets contain some of the purest writing Haydn ever accomplished. In this first full account of these six quartets Dean Sutcliffe evaluates the Op. 50 in relation to Haydn's more frequently performed quartets and considers their relevance to the composer's wider output. A lucid and accessible discussion of the music emphasises the unity of each quartet: not only motivic unity, but unity also of texture, articulation, harmony and syntax. Each quartet is described in detail. The informative background provided by Dr Sutcliffe includes a brief history of the string quartet, and an assessment of Haydn's earlier works in this genre and of his role at Esterhaza. The description of the composition and publication of the Op. 50 quartets is based on the evidence of Haydn's surviving letters and the recently discovered autograph copies of Nos. 3 to 6 - a discovery which is vividly documented here for the first time.
