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Stephen Johnson explores his favourite Beethoven quartet, the Quartet in C, from Beethoven's Opus 59 series. They were commissioned in 1806 by Count Razumovsky, who was the Russian Ambassador to ...

Jan Grüning, violist for the Ariel Quartet, likens the task of playing all the works Beethoven wrote for string quartets to climbing Mount Everest. At each stopping point along the climb, a different ...

On Aug. 21, the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival presents the Ying Quartet performing a program including the third of Ludwig van Beethoven’s op. 59 string quartets: the “Razumovsky” quartets, composed ...

String Quartet No. 1 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Prazák Qt String Quartet No. 2 Prazák Qt Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer String Quartet No. 3 Ludwig van ...

Perhaps wary of the shadows of Haydn and Mozart, whose string quartets were of such extraordinary caliber, Beethoven took his time entering the genre. Even after he started, he had second thoughts.

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. This series offers a rare opportunity for Houston audiences to hear Beethoven's ...