String quartet n° 8 of Beethoven
The String quartet n° 8 as a semi minor , opus 59 n° 2, of Ludwig van Beethoven, was composed in 1806 and was published in January 1808. He is the second of the three quartet S dedicated to the prince Andrei Razumovsky of which he bears the name.
This quartet was written during the very fertile year 1806 which also saw the composition of his/her brothers the quartets n° 7 and n° 9, of the Fourth Concerto for piano , of the Fourth Symphony and of the Concerto for violin . It made up and was very quickly created by the quartet of Schuppanzigh. Beethoven was particularly proud of the three quartets of the opus 59, but this one as the two others had a difficult reception.
If one believes Karl Czerny of it, Beethoven would have written the Adagio of the second movement “by a meditation on the harmony of the spheres, in front of the starry sky in the silence of the night. ”
The Russian topic of the Allegretto was re-used by Moussorgski in Boris Godounov (1868) and by Rimski-Korsakov in Been engaged of the tsar (1898).
The quartet comprises four movements and its execution borders the 35 minutes:
- Allegro
- Allegretto
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