Beethoven - String Quartets - Early Period - Op.18 Numbers 1-6

The subjects of the monographs in this series are selected works of Beethoven relating to their creation origins and reception history.



They incorporate contextual accounts of Beethoven and his contemporaries and estimations of his music as expressed by musicians and musicologist in the nineteenth century and those closer to our own time. The individual titles in the series are as follows:



Volume One: Beethoven: An Anthology of Selected Writings

Volume Two: Piano Sonatas: An Anthology of Selected Writings

Volume Three: Piano Sonatas: Op. 2-Op.28

Volume Four. Piano Sonatas: Op. 31-Op.81A

Volume Five: Piano Sonatas: Op. 90-Op.111

Volume Six: String Quartets Op. 18, Nos. 1 6

Volume Seven: String Quartets Op. 59, Nos. 1-3, (Razumovsky),

String Quartet Op. 74, (The Harp),

String Quartet Op. 95, (Quartetto serioso)

Volume Eight: String Quartets Op. 127, Op. 132 and Op. 130 (Galitzin)

Volume Nine: String Quartet Op. 131 and String Quartet Op.135, Grosse Fuge, Op. 133, and Op. 134, Fugue transcription



The following additional titles are in course of preparation:

The Piano Concertos

The Symphonies: An Anthology of Selected Writings

Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21

Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36

Symphy No. 3 in E-Flat Major Op. 55 (Eroica)