String Quartets (Complete) Format: Book

This affordable study score features Beethoven's entire oeuvre of string quartets. Includes: 6 quartets of Opus 18; 3 quartets of Opus 59; Opuses 74, 95, 127, 130, 131, 132, 135, and Grosse Fuge. Meticulously reprinted from the authoritative Breitkopf & Härtel edition.
 
This single volume contains all the string quartets of Beethoven: the six quartets of Opus 18; the three quartets of Opus 59; Opera 74 and 95; and the late quartets, Opera 127, 130, 131, 132, and 135. The volume concludes with the Grosse Fuge, Opus 133.
 

• The music is photographically reprinted from the Breitkopf & Härtel printed score, still considered the standard, authoritative edition for the Beethoven quartets.
• Noteheads in this edition have been reproduced in a size large enough to be read easily from a music stand or the keyboard.
• Margins and spaces between staves are conveniently wide to permit written notes, harmonic analysis, fingerings, and running measure numbers.
• This edition is practical for study, reference, enjoyment — virtually any use.

Unabridged republication of Serie 6 (Volumes 1 and 2): Quartette für a Violinen, Bratsche und Violoncell of Ludwig van Beethoven's Werke, originally published by Breitkopf & Hartel, Leipzig.
 
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The triumphant genius of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) casts a long shadow over classical music — no other composer of the past two centuries has exercised an influence more profound than his. A product of the classicist generation, he was the first of the Romantics, and his exhilarating works remain undiminished in their powers of enchantment.