Sunday, 4/20/2025
at 6:00 PM


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Program:


Ludwig van Beethoven:
String Quartet in B major op. 18,6

Franz Schubert:
String Quartet No. 13 in A minor op. 29 D 804 “Rosamunde”


When Ludwig van Beethoven first turned to composing string quartets, this musical genre had undergone a short but intense historical development, with Haydn's op. 33 as the first landmark peak, which Mozart also explicitly oriented himself towards. Beethoven, with his six quartets op. 18, connects to Haydn and Mozart, but he does not imitate them. The new style of his composition is based on the fusion of motivic-thematic work and harmonic variation, whether to create surprises or to explore the specific sound of the quartet.

Franz Schubert was known to his contemporaries – if at all – as a song composer, and this is somewhat noticeable in his chamber music: full of melodic joy, gentleness, and melancholy. The A minor quartet is one of those chamber works with which he sought to "pave the way to the great symphony," but at the same time, he also found a way to a larger audience, as the "Rosamunde" quartet would be the first and only string quartet to be publicly performed and printed in a parts edition during Schubert's lifetime.


Participants:

Hye-Bin Kim and Anna Luisa Volkwein, violins
Mario Antón-Andreu, viola
Janet Boram Lee, cello


Photo: © Bochumer Symphoniker

Doors open approximately 1 hour before the concert begins

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