Description

Composer: Joseph Haydn
Editor: James Webster
Format: Parts Set, Urtext Edition
Instrumentation: String Quartet
The volume opens with something unusual: opus 42 is a single work, short and surprisingly easy to play; Haydn described it as « something small and with only 3 pieces ». The Quartets op. 50, including the so-called Frog Quartet, are dedicated to the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm II, who was a talented cellist. Even though the « solo » at the beginning of opus 50,1 is meant as a joke, there are some good passages for cellists.
Contents:

• String Quartet d minor op. 42 Hob. III:43
• String Quartet B flat major op. 50, 1 Hob. III:44
• String Quartet C major op. 50, 2 Hob. III:45
• String Quartet E flat major op. 50, 3 Hob. III:46
• String Quartet f sharp minor op. 50, 4 Hob. III:47
• String Quartet F major op. 50, 5 Hob. III:48
• String Quartet D major op. 50, 6 Hob. III:49