String quartet

late eighteenth century chamber music was that a single player played each part (thus setting chamber music apart from the orchestra where each string part . . . was played by several players).”[2] A greater equality of part writing can be observed in the mature chamber music, especially string quartets, of Mozart and Beethoven. In Mozart’s last string quartet (K. 590, 1790), the part writing is equalized, and solos are given to the viola, with a considerable degree of virtuosity demanded of the instrument

The History of Chamber Music What is chamber music? It is ensemble instrumental music for up to about ten performers with typically one performer to a part. Since circa 1450, there has been instrumental music designed for private playing. These pieces used many instruments and (in Germany) it was common that the folk songs would contain 2-3 countermelodies to expand and elaborate the whole, and to arrange the outcome for groups of instruments. Although the

extends from 1926 when he presented his first major work, Symphony No.1 to 1970 when he presented Quartet No. 7. Born Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich on the 25th September, 1906, in St. Petersburg, Russia, the composer began his descent into classical music at the age of 9, before later moving on to study at the Petrograd conservatory. Throughout his life he compiled 15 symphonies, 15 string quartets and 36 film scores as well as many other compositions. Within his musical work and the course of his

Report #3: The Amenda Quartet November 6, 2015, the Amenda Quartet performed at RIT as part of the Performing Arts Program, with a program of three classical pieces by age-defining composers: W.A. Mozart and L.V. Beethoven. Two string quartets and a piano concerto, though not as well-known as other pieces by those composers, nevertheless are stellar musical works, well on the quality level a modern listener came to expect from the classical era. The first piece, String Quartet in F minor, op. 95,

Bruno Walter Auditorium. The pieces being performed were “String Quartet Opus 18 no. 5” all four movements. This was followed by “String Quartet Opus 18 no. 1” all four movements of this. Which was then finished with “String Quartet Opus 18 no. 4” with all four movements again. The show began at 2:30 in the afternoon and went on for about an hour or so. The group presenting were the “The New York Classical Players”. This group is a quartet. All four members are highly trained classical violinists

composition used amplified string quartet in order to echo the dark and sad mood of the Vietnam War. The events of the time provided George Crumb with inspiration for Black Angels. Being that the Vietnam War inspired this composition, Crumb used explosive noise and resonant gongs to recreate sounds heard during that time. Also, The use of the quartet of stringed instruments was to create a “threshold of pain.” The musicians played in an unusual way that includes drilling on the strings with thimble-capped

three-movement program can assist the surfacing discomfort of what “war” should bring. Black Angels begins with “Departure,” featuring the electric string quartet screeching on their strings like a swarm of insects, comparable to the unfamiliar land soldiers trod upon with insects crowding about corpses before them. As the piece progresses into the next number, the quartet turns into a trio

Cologne. He was baptized on December 17, 1770. He had two younger brother, Caspar and Joann. His mother was Maria Magdalena van Beethoven and his father was Johann van Beethoven. He was an innovator, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet. He combined vocals and instruments in a new way to create his own type of music. His music was like no other, and the most interesting part about it is that he was deaf when his most famous works were created. Beethoven was an amazing composer who

Mozart’s Haydn Quartets concert is a collection of string quartets that were made by Mozart. Two of the six of them were performed on January 26, 2009 in the tapestry room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts by the Borromeo String Quartet. Mozart made these SONGS with Haydn’s music as the inspiration. The first quartet performed was Mozart: String Quartet No. 16 in E flat Major K. 428. The second quartet performed was Mozart: String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465.

There is perhaps no greater paradox than that of a deaf composer becoming one of the greatest music writers of all time. Such is the case for Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), a composer who not only succeeded at his profession during his time, but whose greatest works are considered by many to be those completed by the time he was nearly or totally deaf. Such a striking paradox begs the question: Did deafness have an influence on Beethoven 's music writing, and if so, how? This paper will argue