Reading list: Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartets
In the intoduction to 'The Beethoven Quartet Companion' (University of California Press: Berkeley and L.A., CA: 1994), Robert Winter and Robert Martin state that Beethoven's string quartets "are to chamber music what the plays of Shakespeare are to drama" (p. 1). My hope is to create and share a list of works that enhance listening to the quartets, and perhaps increase our understanding of Beethoven's quartets.