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Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 50

By W. Dean Sutcliffe

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1992
ISBN
0521399955, 9780521399951
LCC
ML410.H4 S83 1992
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3344668 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Music Handbooks
Pages
128\125
Topic
Art Music: Guitar
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The Op. 50 string quartets contain some of the purest writing Haydn ever accomplished. In this first full account of the six quartets, Dean Sutcliffe evaluates the Op. 50 in relation to Haydn's more frequently performed quartets and considers their relevance to Haydn's wider output. Each quartet is discussed in detail. The background to these works 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 that is vividly documented here for the first time.

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