Tag: op. 20

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  A sense of style: op. 20

  May 6, 2013

  Chamber music, String Quartet

  Haydn, op. 20, string quartet

  With op. 20 the historical development of Haydn’s quartets reached its goal; and further progress is not progress in any historical sense, but simply the difference between one masterpiece and the next. Tovey, ‘Haydn’ article in Cobbett What happened to music in the gap between the end of the baroque [Bach] and the beginning of…