String Quartet No. 9 (Beethoven)
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Ludwig van Beethoven
's String Quartet No. 9 in C major was published in 1808 as opus 59, no. 3. It consists of four movements:
This work is the last of three quartets commissioned by prince Andreas Razumovsky
, then the Russian ambassador to Vienna
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
's String Quartet No. 9 in C major was published in 1808 as opus 59, no. 3. It consists of four movements:
- Andante con moto - Allegro vivace (C majorC majorC major is a musical major scale based on C, with pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. Its key signature has no flats/sharps.Its relative minor is A minor, and its parallel minor is C minor....
) - Andante con moto quasi Allegretto (A minorA minorA minor is a minor scale based on A, consisting of the pitches A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. The harmonic minor scale raises the G to G...
) - Menuetto (Grazioso) (C major)
- Allegro molto (C major)
This work is the last of three quartets commissioned by prince Andreas Razumovsky
Andreas Razumovsky
Count Andrey Kirillovich Razumovsky was a Russian diplomat who spent many years of his life in Vienna.-Life :Razumovsky was the son of Cyril Razumovsky, the last hetman of Ukraine, and nephew of Aleksey Grigorievich Razumovsky, called the Night Emperor. The elder Rasumovsky's late Baroque palace...
, then the Russian ambassador to Vienna
Ambassador of Russia to Austria
Russian–Austrian contacts began with Frederick III in 1436, and towards the end of the 15th century, Emperor Maximilian I and Ivan III exchanged diplomatic missions. Regular Russian communications with the Austrian court began in 1698, when Peter the Great led the Grand Embassy to Vienna and met...
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External links
- Free recording by the Jerusalem Quartet
- Recording of quartet by the Amadeo Modigliani Quartet from the Isabella Stewart Gardner MuseumIsabella Stewart Gardner MuseumThe Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum or Fenway Court, as the museum was known during Isabella Stewart Gardner's lifetime, is a museum in the Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, located within walking distance of the Museum of Fine Arts and near the Back Bay Fens...
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format - Beethoven Quartet No. 9 in C major, lecture by Roger ParkerRoger ParkerRoger Parker is an English musicologist, and is currently Thurston Dart Professor of Music at King's College London....
with a performance by the Badke quartetBadke quartetThe Badke Quartet is an English string quartet. Founded in 2002 at London's Royal Academy of Music, it won 1st prize and audience prize in the 5th Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition....
, 6 May 2008 at Gresham CollegeGresham CollegeGresham College is an institution of higher learning located at Barnard's Inn Hall off Holborn in central London, England. It was founded in 1597 under the will of Sir Thomas Gresham and today it hosts over 140 free public lectures every year within the City of London.-History:Sir Thomas Gresham,...
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