Description
Composer: Franz Josef Haydn
Editor: Sonja Gerlach, Georg Feder
Format: Parts Set, Urtext Edition
Instrumentation: String Quartet
Haydn did not assign the nickname « Sun Quartets »: it alludes to an edition of the time, in which the title page was decorated with a rising sun. The Quartets op. 20 are the last series in a group of earlier string quartets, but are clearly ahead of their time. The demanding fugues which three of the six quartets are a particular structural feature.
Contents:
- String Quartet (Sun Quartet) E flat major op. 20,1 Hob. III:31
- String Quartet (Sun Quartet) C major op. 20,2 Hob. III:32
- String Quartet (Sun Quartet) g minor op. 20,3 Hob. III:33
- String Quartet (Sun Quartet) D major op. 20,4 Hob. III:34
- String Quartet (Sun Quartet) f minor op. 20,5 Hob. III:35
- String Quartet (Sun Quartet) A major op. 20,6 Hob. III:36
