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How Beethoven’s style developed from his Early Period Op. 18 quartets to the Middle Period Op. 59 quartets.
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First movement: Turbulent, unsettled, the dramatic power of silence.
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Second movement: The imagery that inspired this transcendent movement.
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Third movement: Beethoven’s use of a required Russian theme.
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Fourth movement: In the radiant key of C major—yet one of the very few works of Beethoven that ends in a minor key.
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Parker Quartet
Internationally recognized for their “fearless, yet probingly beautiful” (The Strad) performances, the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet has distinguished itself as…
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"Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes." -Attributed to Beethoven (by Bettina Brentano)
