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Performer - Végh Quartet / The 1952 Haydn Society Recordings
I. Allegro.................................................................... ( 0:00 )
II. Allegretto vivace e sempre scherzando ........... (10:28)
III. Adagio molto e mesto - attacca ....................... (18:51)
IV. Thème Russe: Allegro ...................................... (30:39)
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String Quartet No. 7 (Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartet No. 7 in F major was published in 1808 as opus 59, No. 1This work is the first of three quartets commissioned by prince Andrey Razumovsky, then the Russian ambassador to Vienna. This quartet is the first of Beethoven's middle period quartets and departs in style from his earlier Op. 18 quartets. The most apparent difference is that this quartet is over forty minutes long in a typical performance, whereas most of Beethoven's earlier quartets lasted twenty-five to thirty minutes. Furthermore, this quartet notoriously requires a greatly expanded technical repertoire. By 1806, while Beethoven was a known quantity in many elite circles; his universal popularity as a composer had not been established. Scholars posit that the greater demands on technical ability served not only to widen the ever-increasing gap, as it were, between amateurs and professionals but also to propel Beethoven into the public eye as a composer of "serious music." Other scholars claim that the delay of public performance due to Count Razumovsky being granted exclusive rights to these quartets for several years invalidates the theory of popular image promotion.
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