The string quartets of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven
Subtitle: studies of the autograph manuscripts : a conference at Isham Memorial Library, March 15-17, 1979
By: edited by Christoph Wolff ; Robert Riggs, assistant editor.
Contributors: Wolff, Christoph.; Riggs, Robert, 1946-
Series: Isham Library papers ; 3
Publisher: Dept. of Music, Harvard University : distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
Subjects: Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809.; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.; Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.; Music -- Congresses.; Musicology.; String quartet.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 346-352.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Lockwood, L. Introductory remarks.; title: Somfai, L. An introduction to the study of Haydn's quartet autographs (with special attention to Opus 77/G); title: Webster, J. The significance of Haydn's quartet autographs for performance practice.; title: Feder, G. Haydn's corrections in the autographs of the Quartets opus 64 and opus 71/74.; title: Finscher, L. Aspects of Mozart's compositional process in the Quartet autographs: I. The early quartets. II. The genesis of K. 387.; title: Flothuis, M. A close reading of the autographs of Mozart's ten late quartets.; title: Tyson, A. Mozart's Haydn quartets : the contribution of paper studies.; title: Wolff, C. Creative exhuberance vs. critical choice : thoughts on Mozart's quartet fragments.; title: Kramer, R. Das Organische der Fuge : on the autograph of Beethoven's Quartet in F major, opus 59, no. 1.; title: Brandenburg, S. The autograph of Beethoven's Quartet in A minor, opus 132 : the structure of the manuscript and its relevance for the study of the genesis of the work.; title: Staehelin, M. Another approach to Beethoven's last quartet oeuvre : the unfinished string quintet of 1826/27.