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Twelve String Quartets, Opp. 55, 64 and 71, Complete
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Series: Dover Chamber Music Scores
Classical MusicMusic ScoresMusic Instruction: Strings
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ISBN13: 9780486239330
Publisher: Dover Pubn Inc
Published: May 1 1980
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.46
Height: 0.58 Width: 8.41 Depth: 11.21
Language: English
It was from Haydn that I first learned the true way to compose quartets. -- Mozart.
Twelve String Quartets marks the second volume in a projected monumental undertaking -- the complete Haydn string quartets. Players and students, music historians, and Haydn lovers will have inexpensive access to a uniform, strongly bound, and clearly printed modern edition of Haydn's finest pieces in complete score.
In a period of 50 years, Haydn (1732-1809) composed over 80 string quartets. Scholars are still debating questions of attribution and even completeness (unknown works by Haydn still turn up), and music lovers have had to make do with scattered, out-of-date, out-of- print editions of a few of the more familiar quartets.
Otto Jahn wrote: It is not often that a composer hits so exactly upon the form suited to his compositions; the quartet was Haydn's natural mode of expressing his feelings. Haydn's affinity to the quartet began with his earliest works, when he perhaps more than anyone established the four-movement structure of chamber music. In common with truly great and complete artists, who surpass early innovation to achieve their greatest work at the end, Haydn's later quartets are his best.
This volume contains the full scores of:
Op. 55, Nos. 1-3 (including Razor) -- dedicated to Joh. Tost, ca. 1788
Op. 65, Nos. 1-6 (including The Lark or Hornpipe) -- dedicated to Joh. Tost, 1790 or 1792
Op. 71, Nos. 1-3 -- dedicated to Count Appony, 1793
Large readable noteheads, ample margins for fingerings, etc., opaque paper, and permanent binding make this a fundamental addition to music libraries and musicians' repertories: a book for all who pay tribute to Haydn and who agree with Grove's Dictionary: The quartet he ... brought to perfection.
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