String Quartets, Op. 18 (Beethoven)
Prince Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, who was the employer of Beethoven's friend, the violinist Karl Amenda. They are thought to demonstrate his total mastery of the classical string quartet as developed by Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.[2]
The order of publication (numbering within the opus) does not correspond to the order of composition. Beethoven composed these quartets in the sequence 3, 1, 2, 5, 4, 6. See:
- String Quartet No. 1 in F major
- String Quartet No. 2 in G major
- String Quartet No. 3 in D major
- String Quartet No. 4 in C minor
- String Quartet No. 5 in A major
- String Quartet No. 6 in B♭ major
In an April 1802 letter to
References
- ^ a b Kerman, Joseph (1967). The Beethoven Quartets. New York: Knopf.
- ^ "Beethoven's String Quartets". All about Beethoven. Retrieved 31 March 2010.
- ^ Beethoven's Letters, p. 28, at Google Books. (1926 edition, Dent/Shedlock/Kalischer editing/translating.) "again" means, as Kerman corroborates in his discussion of the quartets, that this is a reference to the 2nd book - nos. 4-6 - not necessarily all six quartets, despite the editors' footnote in this edition of his letters.
- ^ However, the early version of no. 1 - an autograph copy sent to, and kept by, Karl Amenda before Beethoven gave the quartet a thorough overhaul - is little-known and has been recorded, as of July 2014, less than six times.
- ISBN 0252091620.
- ISBN 0393009092.
See also
- List of compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven
- Late String Quartets (Beethoven)
- String Quartets Nos. 7–9, Op. 59 – Rasumovsky (Beethoven)
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