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String quartets in Beethoven's Europe

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His Master's Voice? Ries, Reputation, and the String Quartet / Allan Badley -- The "Middle Period" String Quartets of Spohr and Beethoven / Nancy November -- Counterpoint without Anxiety? Andreas Romberg's String Quartets Op. 2, Dedicated to Haydn / W. Dean Sutcliffe -- On the F…

String quartets: a research and information guide

by Parker, Mara

fromRoutledge music bibliographies

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"This research guide is an annotated bibliography of sources dealing with the string quartet. This second edition is organized as in the original publication (chapters for general references, histories, individual composers, aspects of performance, facsimiles and critical editio…

Cultivating String Quartets in Beethoven's Vienna

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This book is the first detailed contextual study of string quartets in Beethoven's Vienna, at a time when that genre reigned supreme among the different chamber genres. Focusing on a key transition period in the early nineteenth century, which bore witness to fundamental shifts …

Cultivating string quartets in Beethoven's Vienna

by November, Nancy

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This book is the first detailed contextual study of string quartets in Beethoven's Vienna, at a time when that genre reigned supreme among the different chamber genres. Focusing on a key transition period in the early nineteenth century, which bore witness to fundamental shifts …

Cultivating string quartets in Beethoven's Vienna

by November, Nancy

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This book is the first detailed contextual study of string quartets in Beethoven's Vienna, at a time when that genre reigned supreme among the different chamber genres. Focusing on a key transition period in the early nineteenth century, which bore witness to fundamental shifts …

Cultivating string quartets in Beethoven's Vienna

by November, Nancy

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"This book is the first detailed contextual study of string quartets in Beethoven's Vienna, at a time when that genre reigned supreme among the different chamber genres. Focusing on a key transition period in the early nineteenth century, which bore witness to fundamental shifts…

Beethoven's Theatrical Quartets: Opp. 59, 74, and 95

by November, Nancy

fromMusic in context

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"Beethoven's middle-period quartets, Opp. 59, 74 and 95, are pieces that engage deeply with the aesthetic ideas of their time. In the first full contextual study of these works, Nancy November celebrates their uniqueness, exploring their reception history and early performance. …

Music for silenced voices: Shostakovich and his fifteen quartets

by Lesser, Wendy

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Most previous books about Dmitri Shostakovich have focused on either his symphonies and operas, or his relationship to the regime under which he lived, or both, since these large-scale works were the ones that attracted the interest and sometimes the condemnation of the Soviet a…

Shostakovich, String quartet no. 8

by Fanning, David, (David J.)

fromLandmarks in music since 1950

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When it was first performed in October 1960, Shostakovich's Eighth String Quartet was greeted with a standing ovation and given a full encore. Its popularity has continued to the present day with over a hundred commercial recordings appearing during the last 40 years. The appeal…