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Beethoven for a later age : the journey of a string quartet / Edward Dusinberre.

by Dusinberre, Edward, 1968-

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Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Quartets, violins (2), viola, cello.

Takács Quartet.

String quartet.

String quartets -- Analysis, appreciation.

Bowed stringed instrument players -- Biography.

9780571317134 (hc.)

x, 262 pages : music ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue : opus 131 -- Audition : opus 59, no. 3 -- Joining the quartet : opus 18, no. 1 -- Fracture : opus 59, no. 2 -- Re-creation : opus 127 -- Convalescence : opus 132 -- Alternative endings : opus 130.

Using the history of the composition of Beethoven's string quartets as the backbone to his story, Edward Dusinberre - leader of the Takacs Quartet - recounts the life of the Quartet from its inception in Hungary, through emigration to the US and its present-day life of world renown. He also describes what it was like for him, as a young man fresh out of Julliard, to join the quartet as its (non-Hungarian) leader - a challenging task. Inside the life of a quartet, vividly showing how four people make music together over a long period of time without becoming stale, or falling out. The key, the author argues, is in continual change and experiment - and these are at the heart of Beethoven's remarkable compositions for quartet.

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