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The Language of the Rasumovsky Quartets: Beethoven and Robert Simpson

The Language of the Rasumovsky Quartets: Beethoven and Robert Simpson

Pike, Lionel

Paperback

Music CompositionMusic Instruction: General

Publisher Price: $23.95

ISBN10: 1398439908
ISBN13: 9781398439900
Publisher: Austin Macauley
Published: Aug 14 2026
Pages: 390
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

While working for the BBC Robert Simpson gave an illustrated TV lecture on the last of Beethoven's three 'Rasumovsky' string quartets, Op.59. This talk was so well received that he was strongly pressed to write a complete study of Beethoven's Op.59, but he countered that he did not wish to write any more words about music; he had already done a great deal in that line. Instead, he wrote three quartets of his own (Nos 4, 5 and 6) that explore those incomparable Beethoven pieces. The present book shows how this later music analyses the process used by Beethoven, and by contrast how Beethoven's work can unravel secrets of Simpson's art. The results are enlightening both for the ordinary listener and for the scholar.

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