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String Quartets, Book 11: Quartets, Opp. 77 and 103- Set of Parts
Catalog: HN215
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Description
String Quartets Book 11: Lubkowitz Quartets, Op. 77 and last Quartet Op. 103 These are the last of the nearly seventy quartets in Haydn's oeuvre. Originally he intended to write a set of six quartets, as so often in the past, but at the time they were written, in 1803, Haydn's health was so poor that he could not fully satisfy the commission from Prince Lobkowitz. Instead he published only two complete quartets as Op. 77. Later he allowed an incomplete work consisting of two middle movements to appear as op. 103, adding to the print the portentous words: "Gone is all my strength, old and weak am I." Musically, however, these quartets are anything but weak: they represent the aged composer virtually at the zenith of his powers. Haydn even went so far as to call Op. 77 No. 2, his most beautiful string quartet. Set of parts.
Table of Contents:
- I. String Quartet in G major, Op. 77 No. 1
- II. String Quartet in F major, Op. 77 No. 2
- III. String Quartet in D minor, Op. 103
| Publisher: | Henle |
| Composer/Author: | Haydn, Franz Joseph |
| Arranger/Editor: | Walter, Horst |
| Catalog Number: | HN215 |
| Pages: | 102 |