String Quartets in Beethoven’s Europe / / ed. by Nancy November.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Badley, Allan,; Blackmore, Callum,; Ferraguto, Mark,; Girling, Sam,; Koshikakezawa, Mai,; Maruyama, Yoko,; November, Nancy,; Speck, Christian,; Sutcliffe, W. Dean,
• HerausgeberIn: November, Nancy,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.)

String Quartets in Beethoven’s Europe is the first detailed study of string quartets in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Europe. It brings together the work of nine scholars who explore little-studied aspects of this multi-faceted genre. Together, this book’s chapters deal with compositional responses to Beethoven’s string quartets and the prestige of the genre; varied compositional practices in string quartet writing, with a particular emphasis on texture and performance elements; and the reception of Beethoven’s string quartets ca. 1800. They include discussions of quartets composed for the amateur and connoisseur markets in Beethoven’s Europe; virtuosity, the French Violin School, and the quatuor brillant; the relationship between quartet composers and their audiences during Beethoven’s era; and the cross-pollination of quartet styles in Europe’s musical centers such as Vienna, Paris, and St. Petersburg.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. His Master’s Voice? Ries, Reputation, and the String Quartet -- 2. The “Middle-Period” String Quartets of Spohr and Beethoven -- 3. Counterpoint without Anxiety? Andreas Romberg’s String Quartets Op. 2, Dedicated to Haydn -- 4. On the Fugues in Anton Reicha’s Quatuor Scientifique: Between Tradition and Innovation -- 5. The Other “Razumovsky” Quartets: Franz Weiss’s Op. 8 and the Formation of Vienna’s Kennerpublikum -- 6. Hyacinthe Jadin and the Sound of Revolution: Recovering French String Quartet Aesthetics in 1790s Paris -- 7. “One for the Rode”: The Contribution of Pierre Rode and the Quatuor Brillant to the Early Nineteenth- Century String Quartet -- 8. A Surprise to the Ears, an Amusement for the Eyes: Compositional Strategy and Audience Response to String Quartets ca. 1800 -- 9. The Canonization of Beethoven’s String Quartets in the Musikalisches Taschenbuch auf das Jahr 1803 -- Contributors -- Index