The Beethoven Quartet Companion

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Perspectives
• Beethoven Quartet Audiences: Actual, Potential, Ideal
• JOSEPH KERMAN
• Performing the Beethoven Quartets in Their First Century
• ROBERT WINTER
• Beethoven: Beyond Classicism
• MAYNARD SOLOMON
• The Patrons and Publics of the Quartets: Music, Culture, and
• Society in Beethoven's Vienna
• LEON BOTSTEIN
• The Quartets in Performance: A Player's Perspective
• ROBERT MARTIN
• Notes on the Quartets
• MICHAEL STEINBERG
• The Early Quartets
• String Quartet in F Major, after the Piano Sonata in E Major,
• Op. 14 no. I
• String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18 no. I
• String Quartet in G Major, Op. 18 no. 2
• String Quartet in D Major, Op. 18 no. 3
• String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 18 no. 4
• String Quartet in A Major, Op. 18 no. 5
• String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 18 no. 6
• The Middle Quartets
• String Quartet in F Major, Op. 59 no. I
• String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 59 no. 2
• String Quartet in C Major, Op. 59 no. 3
• String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 74
• String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95, Quartett[o] serioso
• The Late Quartets
• String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 127
• String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 130
• String Quartet inC-Sharp Minor, Op. 131
• String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132
• Grosse Fuge for String Quartet, Op. I33
• String Quartet in F Major, Op. 135
• Glossary
• Index