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Beethoven's String Quartets

Beethoven's String Quartets
By Phillip Radcliffe

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #6609743 in Books
  • Published on: 1978-09-29
  • Original language: English
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 192 pages

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This volume is worth tracking down. In compact, concise essays, Radcliffe describes each quartet in musical detail, relating the pieces to other quartets by Beethoven as well as works in other genres, thus demonstrating how the work fits into his development as a composer. Frequent quotes from and comparisons with early sketches reveal the process by which each work achieved its final form. Musical examples are copious and always well chosen. In short, this is a model musical guidebook. It would be gratifying if some enterprising reprint house were to pick it up.