Beethoven: String Quartet No 14/ Quartetto Italiano 1969 Germany Near Mint LP

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Quartetto Italiano, Ludwig van Beethoven ?–
String Quartet No 14 in C Sharp Minor,Op.131

Label:
Philips ?– 6542 511
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:
Netherlands, Holland
Released:
1969
Genre:
Classical
Style:
Chamber, Quartet, Strings

Tracklist

String Quartet No. 14  in C Sharp Minor Op 131

A1     Adagio Ma Non Troppo E Molto Espressivo    
A2     Allegro Molto Vivace    
A3     Allegro Moderato    
A4     Andante Ma Non Troppo E Molto Cantabile-
    Piu Mosso-Andante Moderato E Lusinghiero-
    Adagio-Allegretto-Adagio,Ma Non Troppo E Semplice-Allegretto    

B1     Presto    
B2     Adagio Quasi Un Poco Andante    
B3     Allegro    

Companies etc

    Philips

Credits

    Strings – Quartetto Italiano
    Composer - Ludwig van Beethoven

Notes

- The String Quartet No. 14 in C? minor, Op. 131, was completed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1826. (The number traditionally assigned to it is based on the order of its publication; it is actually his fifteenth quartet by order of composition.) About 40 minutes in length, it consists of seven movements played without a break, as follows:
Beethoven's sketches for his Op. 131

    Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo
    Allegro molto vivace
    Allegro moderato – Adagio
    Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile – Più mosso – Andante moderato e lusinghiero – Adagio – Allegretto – Adagio, ma non troppo e semplice – Allegretto
    Presto
    Adagio quasi un poco andante
    Allegro

Baron Joseph von Stutterheim

This work is dedicated to Baron Joseph von Stutterheim (de), as a gesture of gratitude for taking his nephew, Karl, into the army after a failed suicide attempt. It was Beethoven's favourite of the late quartets; he is quoted as remarking to a friend that he would find "a new manner of part-writing and, thank God, less lack of imagination than before".[1] It is the last-composed of a trio of great works, written in the order 132, 130 with the Große Fuge ending, 131. It is said that upon listening to a performance of this quartet, Schubert remarked, "After this, what is left for us to write?" Robert Schumann said that this quartet and Op. 127 had a "...grandeur [...] which no words can express. They seem to me to stand...on the extreme boundary of all that has hitherto been attained by human art and imagination.'

The Op. 131 quartet has been described as a monumental feat of integration. While Beethoven composed the quartet in six distinct key areas, the work begins in C? minor and ends in C? major. The Finale directly quotes the opening fugue theme in the first movement in its second thematic area. This type of cyclical composition was avant-garde for a work of that period. Joseph Kerman wrote: "blatant functional reference to the theme of another movement: this never happens". (wiki)

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