A Reader's Guide to Haydn's Early String Quartets

by William Drabkin

Book Overview

The six string quartets comprising Joseph Haydn's Opus 20 (composed in 1772) are the first works in the genre to have received consistent critical attention from writers on music. The twenty-two quartets Haydn wrote before this date, though rarely discussed by historians and theorists and seldom performed in public, are nevertheless fundamental to the development of the quartet and thus inseparable from Opus 20 itself. This thoughtful discussion provides...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313301735
• ISBN13: 9780313301735
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"