Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Endless invention, and a vision of things to come. Beethoven's last two string quartets in his early ...

It’s the opening to the slow movement from Quartet No. 16, Opus 135, in which Beethoven wrote in the score, “Must It Be? -- It Must Be!” Each instrument enters one at a time to create a gorgeous ...

Why should Beethoven’s string quartets have come to represent the pinnacle of achievement in western classical music? After all, this is a modest, intimate format involving just four players, better ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 | Critic’s Notebook The Danish String Quartet presented the composer’s complete quartets over six extraordinary concerts at Alice ...

If Haydn is today called the ‘father’ of the String Quartet, and Mozart took the form to new heights, then Beethoven – characteristically – took hold of it and completely transformed it. The five Late ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. "Grotesque", "monstrous", "chaotic", "madness"... When audiences ...

A musical manuscript handwritten by Ludwig van Beethoven is getting returned to the heirs of the richest family in pre-World War II Czechoslovakia, whose members had to flee the country to escape the ...

A few months back I sat on the jury of a string quartet competition and listened for two days to a succession of student ensembles playing Beethoven’s Op 18 No 5. I hadn’t realised how an experience ...

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