Description
Composer: Franz Josef Haydn
Editors: Gottfried Greiner, Georg Feder
Format: Parts Set, Urtext Edition
Instrumentation: String Quartet
The Weinzierl castle in Lower Austria, which still stands today, can be considered to be the birthplace of a chamber music genre, which is firmly established in our present-day repertoire. The young Haydn was invited to spend some time at this place by a wealthy musical friend and often met up with the steward at the castle, the castle priest and the cellist Anton Albrechtsberger to make music. Although his first two works for « 2 violins, viola and bass » still have five movements, their musical value establishes the success of the string quartet in its own right.
Contents:
- String Quartet B flat major op. 1,1 Hob. III:1
- String Quartet E flat major op. 1,2 Hob. III:2
- String Quartet D major op. 1,3 Hob. III:3
- String Quartet G major op. 1,4 Hob. III:4
- String Quartet E flat major op. 1,0 Hob. II:6
- String Quartet C major op. 1,6 Hob. III:6
- String Quartet A major op. 2,1 Hob. III:7
- String Quartet E major op. 2,2 Hob. III:8
- String Quartet F major op. 2,4 Hob. III:10
- String Quartet B flat major op. 2,6 Hob. III:12
