Beethoven's Theatrical Quartets
Opp. 59, 74 and 95
- Author: November, Nancy
This book catapults the scholarship on the middle-period quartets into the twenty-first century. It is a must-read for Beethoven scholars and should be of significant interest to students of... — More…
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Contents
- Introduction;
- 1. Setting the scene: theories, practices, and the early nineteenth-century string quartet;
- 2. Curtain up: performing the middle-period quartets in Beethoven's time;
- 3. 'Not generally comprehensible': Op. 59 No. 1 and the drama of becoming;
- 4. 'With much feeling': song, sensibility, and rhapsody in Op. 59 No. 2;
- 5. 'Helden-Quartett': genre, innovation, and 'heroic' voices in Op. 59 No. 3;
- 6. Freudvoll und leidvoll: songful impetus and dualistic voice in the 'Harp' Quartet;
- 7. 'The quick-witted brevity of the genuine dramatist': Op. 95 and the idea of the fragment;
- 8. A tale of heroic emancipation? Reception narratives for the middle-period string quartets.