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The first detailed study of string quartets in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Europe through the work of nine scholars who explore little-studied aspects of this multi-faceted genre.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. His Master’s Voice? Ries, Reputation, and the String Quartet
Allan Badley
2. The “Middle Period” String Quartets of Spohr and Beethoven
Nancy November
3. Counterpoint without Anxiety? Andreas Romberg’s String Quartets Op. 2, Dedicated to Haydn
W. Dean Sutcliffe
4. On the Fugues in Anton Reicha’s Quatuor Scientifique: Between Tradition and Innovation
Mai Koshikakezawa
5. The Other “Razumovsky” Quartets: Franz Weiss’s Op. 8 and the Formation of Vienna’s Kennerpublikum
Mark Ferraguto
6. Hyacinthe Jadin and the Sound of Revolution: Recovering French String Quartet Aesthetics in 1790s Paris
Callum Blackmore
7. “One for the Rode”: The Contribution of Pierre Rode and the Quatuor Brillant to the Early Nineteenth-Century String Quartet
Sam Girling
8. A Surprise to the Ears, an Amusement for the Eyes: Compositional Strategy and Audience Response to String Quartets ca. 1800
Yoko Maruyama
9. The Canonization of Beethoven’s String Quartets in the Musikalisches Taschenbuch auf das Jahr 1803
Christian Speck
Epilogue
Authors’ Biographies
Index
About the author
Nancy November is currently Associate Professor in musicology at the University of Auckland. Combining interdisciplinarity and cultural history, her research continues to center on chamber music of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, probing questions of historiography, canonization, and genre. Recent publications include Performing History: Approaches to History Across Musicology (Academic Studies Press, 2020); Beethoven’s Theatrical Quartets: Opp. 59, 74, and 95 (Cambridge University Press, 2013); a three-volume set of fifteen string quartets by Emmanuel Aloys Förster (A-R Editions, 2016); and Cultivating String Quartets in Beethoven’s Vienna (Boydell Press, 2017). She is the recipient of a Humboldt Fellowship, and three Marsden Grants from the New Zealand Royal Society.
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The first detailed study of string quartets in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Europe through the work of nine scholars who explore little-studied aspects of this multi-faceted genre.
