String Quartet No. 13 in Bb Major, Op. 130
Monday, March 29, 2021String Quartet No. 12 in Eb Major, Op. 127
Sunday, March 28, 2021
In 1822, at the suggestion of a member of Prince Galitzin's private quartet, Beethoven received a commission for three string quartets, thus beginning the great project of the late quartets that would occupy him for the last two and a half years of his life.
Beethoven in the Garden of Gethsemane
Saturday, March 27, 2021String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95
Friday, March 26, 2021
Although composed in 1810 and formally classified as the last of the “middle quartets”, the Opus 95 “Quartetto Serioso” (as Beethoven called it) has much in common with the “late quartets” composed more than a decade later.
String Quartet No. 10 in Eb Major, Op. 74
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Just a year after the Opus 59 "Razumovsky Quartets", Beethoven composed his first standalone quartet, Opus 74, nicknamed "The Harp" for its plucked arpeggios in the first movement.
String Quartet No. 9 in C Major, Op. 59-3
String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59-2
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Beethoven’s “Razumovsky Quartets” took the string quartet out of the salon and onto the concert stage, no longer to be considered "light entertainment".
String Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 59-1
Monday, March 22, 2021
Six years after the publication of the six Opus 18 string quartets, Beethoven received a commission for three quartets from Count Razumovsky, the Russian ambassador to Vienna, who was the funder of the Schuppanzigh Quartet and himself an accomplished violinist.