Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

String Quartets Op. 59, 74, 95
Study Score
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Category: Band/Orchestra/Ensemble
Series: Henle Study Scores
Format: Softcover

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 Quartet serioso. All five quartets are mature masterworks which demand high interpretative and technical mastery.

Inventory # : 51489268
UPC: 884088183714
ISBN:
Width: 6.75"
Length: 9.5"
Height: 0.42"
Product Weight: 0.7 lbs.
Number of Pages: 160