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A string quartet in performance. From left to right: violin 1, violin 2, viola, cello. The early history of the string quartet is in many ways the history of the development of the genre by the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn.
The String Quartet No. 14 in C ♯ minor, Op. 131, was completed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1826. It is the last-composed of a trio of string quartets , written in the order Opp. 132 , 130 (with the Große Fuge ending), 131.
String Quartet in C major may refer to: No. 2 of the String Quartets, Op. 20 (Haydn) No. 3 of the String Quartets, Op. 33 (Haydn) No. 2 of the String Quartets, Op. 50 ...
The first movement of the quartet is in the home key of C major, in common time, and is written in sonata form. The musicologist Laszlo Somfai suggested (1986) that the opening notes have an extra-musical origin: they represent the initial letters of " G ott e rhalte F ranz d en C aesar", assuming the license of using the original Latin ...
The name "quatuor concertant" appears often in the scores of string quartets published in Paris, not always corresponding to the characteristics below. While the term initially was simply used to highlight the soloistic character of the piece, from around 1776 on it is mainly used for string quartets in which the different voices alternately ...
String quartets most often consist of two violins, a viola, and a cello. The particular choice and number of instruments derives from the registers of the human voice: soprano, alto, tenor and bass . In the string quartet, two violins play the soprano and alto vocal registers, the viola plays the tenor register and the cello plays the bass ...
Ludwig van Beethoven's Op. 18, published in 1801 by T. Mollo et Comp in Vienna in two books of three quartets each, [1] comprised his first six string quartets. They were composed between 1798 and 1800 to fulfill a commission for Prince Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, who was the employer of Beethoven's friend, the violinist Karl Amenda.
The Op. 33 String Quartets were written by Joseph Haydn in the summer and Autumn of 1781 for the Viennese publisher Artaria.This set of string quartets has several nicknames, the most common of which is the "Russian" quartets, because Haydn dedicated the quartets to the Grand Duke Paul of Russia and many (if not all) of the quartets were premiered on Christmas Day, 1781, at the Viennese ...