String quartet

Takacs Quartet Paper For my last off campus performance, I attended the Takacs Quartet at the La Jolla Music Society on Friday December 9th 2016 with a couple friends from the music class. There were three main performances within the Takets Quartet. There was the String Quartet in G Minor, String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 9, and String Quartet in B-flat Major. The atmosphere was full of anticipation and excitement waiting for the symphony to start. The first one piece that was played was the String Quartet in G Minor composed Claude Debussy composed during the Romantic period. The overall arching theme of this piece is joyous and the mood being optimistic. The very beginning of the first theme is what the whole rest of the piece is based off of and…

“Surprise” and “String Quartet in C Major, op. 76, no. 3, second movement”, both by Franz Joseph Haydn, are the two works of music compared in this paper. Both the musical pieces are from the classical era, but have different genres. “Surprise” is a symphony, and the second musical piece is a string quartet. A string quartet by definition, includes four instruments, a cello, a viola and two violins. A symphony might include many groups of instruments, i.e. brass violins, piano, and stringed…

The string quartet has been one of the predominant genres of chamber music since the year of 1759. The string quartet consists of four string instruments, usually with two violins, a viola and a cello which performed structured symphonies in the form of four movements. The first movement in Sonata form, Allegro, in the tonic key; the second movement is a slow movement, in a related key; the third movement is a Minuet and Trio, in the tonic key; and the fourth movement is often in Rondo form or…

briefly characterize the features of Beethoven’s style during each period. The first period in Ludwig van Beethoven’s (1770-1827) life was from his birth in 1770 to 1802. During this time he composed many piano sonatas, simply because it was his primary instrument. Beethoven’s composing style was influenced mostly by his teacher Joseph Haydn, but also by Wolfgang Mozart and Muzio Clementi. Sonate Pathetique is one of Beethoven’s most popular pieces. During this time, he also composed Op. 18…

Franz Joseph Haydn is widely known as one of the creators of classical music, as well as being dubbed the “Father of the Symphony” and “Father of the String Quartet. He is also one of the greatest and most celebrated composers of all time. Haydn once remarked, “Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.” And it was the truth. Haydn came from humbler beginnings than most. He was born in Rohrau, Austria on March…

On the other hand, he advanced quartet-writing towards a creative class, requiring the masses to comprehend and compose string quartets. Beethoven mastered the transformation of boring melodic symphonies independently. Under the circumstances of evolving them in the exposition, recurring the melody, disassembling it into segments, eventually fitting the tune back simultaneously astounding, entirely lacking repetition. To illustrate, his establishment of the vocal choir to the 9th symphony, last…

was Beethoven's period of low productivity where people believed he was suffering from depression because of his troubled life and the fact that he was starting to become deaf. He also began to realize that he was never going to get married because the women he was attracted to were either married of aristocratic women (Neal sec. 7). All of these things haunted him and he began to contemplate suicide. The last period of Beethoven's life began around 1816 and lasted until he stopped composing in…

focusing on the detail. While the music tended to have conventional elements, audiences would be surprised when composers changed certain forms or structures. People may think that there was special meaning because the structure did not following the normal order or setting. However, at the same time, the music still contains unity and there were several settings to keep its unity: the structural setting, thematic setting, and other functions. The influences of key setting and the sequence…

city’s promising young court musician. In 1790 at the age of nineteen Beethoven was asked to composed a musical memorial for the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II but it remains unclear why he never performed. Beethoven was going deaf and he tried to hide it from everyone. By the turn of the century, he was struggling to make out words that were spoken to him in a conversation. Even though he was becoming deaf he didn’t stop to compose beautiful music. Beethoven had a lonely adult life and was never…

There might be people who believe that his irregular heartbeat is the major conflict. The irregular heartbeat could have interacted with Beethoven’s music. Doctors say that his heartbeats can sometimes beat differently than regular hearts. According to the website, “http://www.hearingreview.com/2015/01/beethovens-health- affected-music-study-says/,” it says “As examples, the researchers point to the final movement “Cavatina” in Beethoven’s String Quartet in B-flat Major, Opus 130. In the middle…