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.
String Quartet No. 6 in Bb Major, Opus 18 no. 6
String Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op. 18 no. 5
String Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Opus 18, no. 4
Friday, March 19, 2021
The fourth of Beethoven's Opus 18 quartets is actually the last of the sixth to be composed, and is in C-minor, the key associated with some of his most urgent and dramatic works.
String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Opus 18, no. 3
String Quartet No. 2, Opus 18, no. 2
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
The second of Beethoven's Opus 18 quartets in G Major has earned the nickname "Compliments Quartet" or "Quartet of Bows and Curtseys".
String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Opus 18 no. 1
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
By 1798, Beethoven was ready to take up the string quartet, a genre already developed to a high art by Haydn and Mozart. Beethoven had copied out and intensively studied his predecessors' works, and after about two years and countless sketches produced a set of six string quartets published as Opus 18.
Kakadu Trio Variations, Opus 121a


An die ferne Geliebte, Opus 98


Piano Concerto No. 5 in Eb Major, Opus 73

