The String Quartet: Part 1
The String Quartet: Part 1
Explore the 19th Century String Quartet from Haydn through Ravel.
The Romantic composers expressed their deepest ideas and emotions in their string quartets.
INCLUDES: Links to 9 two hour length videos plus YouTube links to all the musical examples
Session 1 Franz Joseph Haydn
op. 20#5 in F minor
op.76 #3 in C major ( “Emperor”)
Session 2 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Quartet No. 15 K.421 in D minor
Quartet No. 19 K.465 in C major (“Dissonant”)
Session 3 Ludwig van Beethoven
Quartet No. 8 op. 59 #1 in F major
Quartet No. 12 op. 127 in E flat major
Session 4 Franz Schubert
Quartet No. 13 in A minor (“Rosamunde)
Quartet No. 14 in D minor (“Death and the Maiden”)
Session 5 Felix Mendelssohn
Quartet No. 2 in A minor (Ist es wahr?)
Quartet No. 6 in F minor
Session 6 Johannes Brahms
Quartet No. 1 in C minor
Quartet No. 2 in A minor
Session 7 Antonin Dvorak
Quartet No. 12 in F major (“American”)
Quartet No. 14 in A flat major
Session 8 Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel
Debussy—Quartet in G minor
Ravel—Quartet in F major