Evolution of String Quartets | Violin Lounge TV # 357
33 Famous String Quartets as an historical overview of the string quartet genre
Enjoy listening and learning about beautiful classical music:
Are you new to string quartets or would you like to explore style periods and composers you’re not so familiar with?
This video will help you explore some beautiful music throughout the centuries
I made this overview to educate about string quartets from the early quartets by Haydn, the classical quartets by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, the romantic quartets by Mendelssohn, Schuman, Dvořák and Brahms and 20th century quartets by Sibelius, Shostakovich and Glass and much much more.
It was like cutting off a limb to make this selection of 33 important string quartets and sharing just snippets in this video. In no way these snippets can represent the string quartet or the rich history of this genre. I would like to encourage you to listen to the full recordings and
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Please let this be a place where we explore and share beautiful music with each other!
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Why only male composers, check out this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBeADpGWrIw , beautiful work by Fanny Mendelssohn, played by a female only quartet. My personal favorites, all the beethoven quartets (especially the late ones), Tod und das mädchen and the dissonant.
Thanks for sharing, Fred!
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Thank you for your kind words :).