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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      December 2009
      March 1992
      ISBN:
      9780511620126
      9780521399951
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511620126
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.168kg, 128 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Music, Eighteenth-Century Music, Music: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Music Handbooks
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    Subjects:
    Music, Eighteenth-Century Music, Music: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Music Handbooks
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    The Op. 50 string quartets contain some of the purest writing Haydn ever accomplished. In this first full account of these six quartets Dean Sutcliffe evaluates the Op. 50 in relation to Haydn's more frequently performed quartets and considers their relevance to the composer's wider output. A lucid and accessible discussion of the music emphasises the unity of each quartet: not only motivic unity, but unity also of texture, articulation, harmony and syntax. Each quartet is described in detail. The informative background provided by Dr Sutcliffe includes a brief history of the string quartet, and an assessment of Haydn's earlier works in this genre and of his role at Esterhaza. The description of the composition and publication of the Op. 50 quartets is based on the evidence of Haydn's surviving letters and the recently discovered autograph copies of Nos. 3 to 6 - a discovery which is vividly documented here for the first time.

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    ‘ … the author is able to relate this comparatively neglected part of the Haydn quartet literature to the rest of the composer’s work and so produce a mongoraph which many should find interesting.’

    Source: Musical Times

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