Symposium on Beethoven's String Quartet in F Major, Opus 135, April 10-11, 2019

SINCE 2014, THE BOSTON UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR BEETHOVEN RESEARCH has hosted an annual spring symposium on each of the late Beethoven Quartets. Normally he would entrust this task to a copyist, but at the time of the quartets completion in October 1826 he was at his brothers estate in the secluded vil...

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Published in:The Beethoven journal 2019-07, Vol.34 (1), p.28-29
Main Author: Buurman, Erica
Format: Article
Language:English
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Autographs
Conferences
Graduate students
Quartets (Musical works)
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Summary:SINCE 2014, THE BOSTON UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR BEETHOVEN RESEARCH has hosted an annual spring symposium on each of the late Beethoven Quartets. Normally he would entrust this task to a copyist, but at the time of the quartets completion in October 1826 he was at his brothers estate in the secluded village of Gneixendorf, whereas his usual copyists were back home in Vienna. [...]Opus 135 effectively has two autograph scores: the original score, and the parts copied by Beethoven. In my own formal response to Barry's paper, I further explored the connection between the kte styles of Haydn and Beethoven. Since both Haydn's and Beethoven's works of the 1790s demonstrate formal innovations, such as more integrated largescale tonal schemes, I tentatively speculated that Haydn's late style may have been inf uenccd by his young student (and even that Opus 77, no. 2 might be termed Haydn's "Beethoven" quartet). [...]Opus 135 is the only Beethoven work where the opening movement uses that combination.
ISSN:1087-8262