String Quartets, Vol. 4 (parts); Joseph Haydn

String Quartets, Vol. 4 (parts); Joseph Haydn String Quartets, Vol. 4 (parts); Joseph Haydn String Quartets, Vol. 4 (parts); Joseph Haydn String Quartets, Vol. 4 (parts); Joseph Haydn String Quartets, Vol. 4 (parts); Joseph Haydn
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String Quartets, Vol. 4 (parts) by Franz Joseph Haydn

Edited by Andreas Moser and Hugo Dechert. Published by C.F. Peters

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was one of the greatest composers of Western classical music. A ceaseless innovator, he led the transition from the Baroque into the Classical period, refining and inventing many forms and genres and influencing countless composers, notably Mozart and Beethoven, whom he mentored. He became chiefly renowned for his humor, spontaneity, and inventive motivic development.

Haydn is known as "the father of the string quartet" for his prolific, innovative, and enduring work in the genre across 68 completed works. This excellent, performer-friendly four-volume series of Haydn's quartets has been a favorite of quartet players everywhere. This fourth and final volume contains many early quartets, several quartets of the renowned Op.33 and first "Apponyi" collections," his final, unfinished quartet, and the quartet version of his extraordinary "The Seven Last Words of Christ", Op.51. Contains all four parts in separately bound volumes. Advanced level, Grade 5.

CONTENTS:

  • Quartet in B-flat Major, Op.1, No.1, Hob. III: 1 "La chasse"
  • Quartet in E-flat Major, Op.1, No. 2, Hob. III: 2
  • Quartet in D Major, Op.1, No. 3, Hob. III: 3
  • Quartet in G Major, Op.1, No. 4, Hob. III: 4
  • Quartet in B-flat Major, Op.1, No. 5, Hob. III: 5
  • Quartet in C Major, Op.1, No. 6, Hob. III: 6

Quartet in A Major, Op.2, No. 1, Hob. III: 7

  • Quartet in E Major, Op.2, No. 2, Hob. III: 8
  • Quartet in E-flat Major, Op.2, No. 3, Hob. III: 9
  • Quartet in F Major, Op.2, No. 4, Hob. III: 10
  • Quartet in D Major, Op.2, No. 5, Hob. III: 11
  • Quartet in B-flat Major, Op.2, No. 6, Hob. III: 12

Quartet in E Major, Op.3, No. 1, Hob. III: 13

  • Quartet in C Major, Op.3, No. 2, Hob. III: 14
  • Quartet in B-flat Major, Op.3, No. 4, Hob. III: 16
  • Quartet in A Major, Op.3, No. 6, Hob. III: 18

Sun

  • Quartet in E-flat Major, Op.20, No. 1, Hob. III: 31
  • Quartet in C Major, Op.20, No. 2, Hob. III: 32
  • Quartet in G minor, Op.20, No. 3, Hob. III: 33

Quartet in B minor, Op.33, No. 1, Hob. III: 37

  • Quartet in B-flat Major, Op.33, No. 4, Hob. III: 40
  • Quartet in G Major, Op.33, No. 5, Hob. III: 41 "How do you do?"

The Seven Last Words of Christ, Op.51

Apponyi I

  • Quartet in B-flat Major, Op.71, No. 1, Hob. III: 69
  • Quartet in D Major, Op.71, No. 2, Hob. III: 70
  • Quartet in E-flat Major, Op.71, No. 3, Hob. III: 71

Quartet in D minor, Op.103, Hob. III: 83 (unfinished)

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Book Type: Repertoire
Ensemble: Quartet - String Quartet
Publisher: CF Peters
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Ensemble Quartet - String Quartet
Book Type Repertoire