Tag: alexander von zemlinsky

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  What’s so important about the string quartet?

  April 12, 2013

  Chamber music, String Quartet

  Adams, alexander von zemlinsky, Dutilleux, Dvořák, Mozart, Puccini, Schubert, Shostakovich, Tippett, Webern, Wolf

  It was Haydn who started it all. You can quibble about Boccherinis or Albrechtsbergers, Dittersdorfs or Vanhals, but in the end, when it comes to the crunch, you’ll be forced to admit that it was Haydn who was fons et origo of the strings quartet. And after? Mozart and Beethoven: Mozart dedicated six glorious quartets…