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Beethoven for a Later Age - Living with the String Quartets by Edward Dusinberre is a music available to read on EtoBox.
What is Beethoven for a Later Age - Living with the String Quartets about?
Beethoven’s sixteen string quartets are some of the most extraordinary and challenging pieces of music ever written. Originally composed and performed between 1798 and 1826, they have inspired artists of all kinds—not only musicians—and have been subject to endless reinterpretation. But what is it like to personally take up the challenge of these compositions, not only as a musician, but as a member of a quartet, where each player has ideas about style and expression? To answer this question, Edward Dusinberre, first violinist of the renowned Takács Quartet, offers a rare peek inside the workings of his ensemble, while providing an insightful history of the compositions and their performance. Founded in Hungary in 1975 and now based in Boulder, Colorado, the Takács is one of the world’s preeminent string quartets, and performances of Beethoven have been at the center of their work together for over forty years. Using the history of both the Takács Quartet and the Beethoven quartets as a foundation, Beethoven for a Later Age provides a backstage look at the daily life of a quartet, showing the necessary creative tension between individual and group and how four people can at the sam
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- Author
- Edward Dusinberre
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press;
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- Category
- music
- Subjects
- Music, Arts
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (72 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14