Research Catalog

Title

Beethoven for a later age : living with the string quartets / Edward Dusinberre.

Author

Dusinberre, Edward, 1968-

Publication

• Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Holdings

Details

Description

x, 262 pages : music; 23 cm

Summary

"Edward Dusinberre, first violinist of the renowned Takács Quartet, offers a rare peek inside the workings of his ensemble, while providing an insightful history of the compositions and their performance. Founded in Hungary in 1975 and now based in Boulder, Colorado, the Takács is one of the world's preeminent string quartets, and performances of Beethoven have been at the center of their work together for over forty years. Using the history of both the Takács Quartet and the Beethoven quartets as a foundation, Beethoven for a Later Age provides a backstage look at the daily life of a quartet, showing the necessary creative tension between individual and group and how four people can at the same time forge a lasting artistic connection and enjoy making music together over decades. The key, Dusinberre reveals, to a quartet crafting its own sound is in balancing continuity with change and experimentation--a theme that lies at the heart of Beethoven's remarkable compositions. In an accessible style, suitable for novices and chamber music enthusiasts alike, Dusinberre illuminates the variety and contradictions of Beethoven's quartets, which were composed against the turbulent backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath, and he brings the technical aspects of the music to life."--Publisher's Web site.

Subject

• Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
• Takács Quartet > Biography
• Takács Quartet
• Quartets (Beethoven, Ludwig van)
• String quartet
• String quartets > Analysis, appreciation
• Bowed stringed instrument players > Biography
• Bowed stringed instrument players

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-254) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prologue : opus 131 -- Audition : opus 59, no. 3 -- Joining the quartet : opus 18, no. 1 -- Fracture : opus 59, no. 2 -- Re-creation : opus 127 -- Convalescence : opus 132 -- Alternative endings : opus 130.

ISBN

• 9780226374369 (cloth : alkaline paper)
• 022637436X (cloth : alkaline paper)
• 9780226374536 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2015034534

OCLC

• 920017612
• SCSB-10179922

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library