Just uploaded… a video insight by Sara Bitlloch on Opus 130 with its original Grosse Fuge ending. Well worth following the scores (courtesy of IMSLP.org) which are available for downloading here. full score: Op.130; full score: Op.133 Grosse …
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The early performers of the quartets of Beethoven
by Martin Saving
On the groups that brought Beethoven's quartets to the public attention.
Beethoven’s hearing loss linked to lack of high notes in his quartets
by Martin Saving
This interesting article was brought to our attention by our friend Ivan Moseley. It concerns recent research linking the gradual decrease of high notes in Beethoven’s quartets to his increasing hearing problems.
A video presenting the research can be seen…
Making friends with op.130 - a diary
by Sara Bitlloch
Up until recently, I've always found op.130 the hardest Beethoven quartet to understand...
New Beethoven movement reconstructed
by Martin Saving
Watch a Guardian video clip here with the recently reconstructed lost version of Beethoven’s Op. 18:2 quartet.…
Appendix to “How Fast Shall We Play?”
by Martin Saving
The following metronome markings for Beethoven’s late quartets might be of interest to some of you; As mentioned in the blog post “How Fast Shall We Play?”, Beethoven never provided metronome markings for his last quartets, but Rudoph Kolisch, one …
What Beethoven would have heard (had he been able to)
by Martin Saving
- a brief investigation of early 19th century quartet performance practice