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Beethoven for a Later Age

- The Journey of a String Quartet
Af: Edward Dusinberre Engelsk Paperback

Beethoven for a Later Age

- The Journey of a String Quartet
Af: Edward Dusinberre Engelsk Paperback
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''They are not for you but for a later age!'' Ludwig van Beethoven, on the Opus 59 quartets

Beethoven''s sixteen string quartets are some of the most extraordinary and challenging pieces of music ever written. They have inspired artists of all kinds - not only musicians - and have been subject to endless reinterpretation. What does it feel like to be a musician taking on these iconic works? And how do the four string players who make up a quartet interact, both musically and personally?

The Takács is one of the world''s pre-eminent string quartets. Performances of Beethoven have shaped their work together for over forty years. Using the history of both the Takács Quartet and the Beethoven quartets as the backbone to his story, Edward Dusinberre, first violinist of the Takács since 1993, recounts the exhilarating challenge of tackling these pieces. Beethoven for a Later Age takes the reader inside the daily life of a quartet, vividly showing the necessary creative tension between individual and group expression and how four people can enjoy making music together over a long period of time.

The key, the author argues, is in balancing continuity with change and experimentation - a theme that lies at the heart of Beethoven''s remarkable compositions. No other composer has posed so many questions about the form and emotional content of a string quartet, and come up with so many different answers. In an accessible style, suitable for novices and chamber music enthusiasts alike, Dusinberre illuminates the variety and inherent contradictions of Beethoven''s quartets, composed against the turbulent backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath, and shows that engaging with this radical music continues to be as invigorating now as it was for its first performers and audiences.

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''They are not for you but for a later age!'' Ludwig van Beethoven, on the Opus 59 quartets

Beethoven''s sixteen string quartets are some of the most extraordinary and challenging pieces of music ever written. They have inspired artists of all kinds - not only musicians - and have been subject to endless reinterpretation. What does it feel like to be a musician taking on these iconic works? And how do the four string players who make up a quartet interact, both musically and personally?

The Takács is one of the world''s pre-eminent string quartets. Performances of Beethoven have shaped their work together for over forty years. Using the history of both the Takács Quartet and the Beethoven quartets as the backbone to his story, Edward Dusinberre, first violinist of the Takács since 1993, recounts the exhilarating challenge of tackling these pieces. Beethoven for a Later Age takes the reader inside the daily life of a quartet, vividly showing the necessary creative tension between individual and group expression and how four people can enjoy making music together over a long period of time.

The key, the author argues, is in balancing continuity with change and experimentation - a theme that lies at the heart of Beethoven''s remarkable compositions. No other composer has posed so many questions about the form and emotional content of a string quartet, and come up with so many different answers. In an accessible style, suitable for novices and chamber music enthusiasts alike, Dusinberre illuminates the variety and inherent contradictions of Beethoven''s quartets, composed against the turbulent backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath, and shows that engaging with this radical music continues to be as invigorating now as it was for its first performers and audiences.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 272
ISBN-13: 9780571317141
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0571317146
Udg. Dato: 15 sep 2016
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 198mm
Højde: 131mm
Forlag: Faber & Faber
Oplagsdato: 15 sep 2016
Forfatter(e): Edward Dusinberre
Forfatter(e) Edward Dusinberre


Kategori Klassisk- & orkestermusik


ISBN-13 9780571317141


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 272


Udgave


Længde 18mm


Bredde 198mm


Højde 131mm


Udg. Dato 15 sep 2016


Oplagsdato 15 sep 2016


Forlag Faber & Faber

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