Beethoven for a Later Age: The Journey of a String Quartet
- ISBN-10
- 0571317138
- ISBN-13
- 9780571317134
- Category
- Bowed stringed instrument players
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016
- Author
- Edward Dusinberre
Description
Using the history of the composition of Beethoven's string quartets as the backbone to his story, Edward Dusinberre - leader of the Takacs Quartet - recounts the life of the Quartet from its inception in Hungary, through emigration to the US and its present-day life of world renown. He also describes what it was like for him, as a young man fresh out of Julliard, to join the quartet as its (non-Hungarian) leader - a challenging task. Beethoven for a Later Age takes the reader inside the life of a quartet, vividly showing how four people make music together over a long period of time without becoming stale, or falling out. The key, the author argues, is in continual change and experiment - and these are at the heart of Beethoven's remarkable compositions for quartet.
