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The String Quartets of Beethoven
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Pages: 361
Authors: William Kinderman
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-01 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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"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 appro
Beethoven for a Later Age
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Edward Dusinberre
Categories: Bowed stringed instrument players
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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 th
The Beethoven Quartet Companion
Language: en
Pages: 314
Authors: Robert Winter
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-09-01 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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While the Beethoven string quartets are to chamber music what the plays of Shakespeare are to drama, even seasoned concertgoers will welcome guidance with these
Beethoven's String Quartets
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: Phillip Radcliffe
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1978-09-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Beethoven's string quartets form one of the most intimate and revealing sections of his output, giving a full and varied picture of his musical personality. Thi
The Galitzin Quartets of Beethoven
Language: en
Pages: 293
Authors: Daniel K. L. Chua
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-14 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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This study is an analysis of the first three of Beethoven's late quartets, Opp. 127, 132, and 130, commissioned by Prince Nikolai Galitzin. The five late quarte