Beethoven for a later age
Subtitle: living with the string quartets
By: Edward Dusinberre
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780226374369
Subjects: String quartets (Musical groups); Analysis, appreciation; String quartets; Ensemble playing; String quartet; Takács Quartet
Description: Using the history of both the Takács Quartet and the Beethoven quartets as a foundation, Dusinberre provides a backstage look at the daily life of a quartet, showing the necessary creative tension between individual and group and how four people can at the same time forge a lasting artistic connection and enjoy making music together over decades.
Notes: Reprint. First published: London : Faber & Faber, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-254) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue. Opus 131; title: Audition : Opus 59, no. 3; title: Joining the quartet : Opus 18, no. 1; title: Fracture : Opus 59, no. 2; title: Re-creation : Opus 127; title: Convalescence : Opus 132; title: Alternative endings : Opus 130.