Haydn J. - String Quartets Volume Iii, Op. 17

String Quartets Book VIII op. 64-The quartets were dedicated to the violinist Johann Tost who was the second principal violinist at the Esterházy court during the 1780s. His business sense led him to sell twelve quartets - opus 64 was probably amongst them - toa Parisian publisher. Whether Haydn approved of this is open to question - the dedication was however no longer present in the second imprint or the following ones. Our edition follows the Haydn Complete Edition and for thefirst time juxtaposes the quartet in E flat major and the two original trios.

String Quartets Book III op. 17-The autograph score of the Quartets op. 17 was in the possession of the imperial police chief Johann Nepomuk Neuwirth whose widow gave it to the Wiener Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in 1875. It is said that Haydn ?used to playthe viola in quartet rehearsals? at the Neuwirth?s house. Whether the Quartets op. 17 were composed for these gatherings can no longer be ascertained. However even today they still have a fixed place amongst the music of allchamber music friends and in particular nos. 4 5 and 6 which are very different to the divertimento style of the early quartets are played again and again.

'Ce dernier volume de la série acclamée par la critique de quatuors à cordes de Haydn contient les deux quatuors opus 77 - Haydn dernier quatuors - et incomplet en deux mouvements opus 103. Le volume comprend également l'opus 42 quartet - un travail de des proportions plus modestes et les exigences techniques moins que le reste des quatuors de Haydn (inclus ici, de sa chronologique séquence, afin de ne pas perturber la logique dans les volumes précédents de donner une série de six quatuors, comme prévu par Haydn, dans chaque volume. Simon Rowland Jones est célèbre pour ses éditions interprète axé, dans lequel il présente toutes les preuves des sources de manière à encourager les artistes de choisir la façon dont ils aimeraient accomplir. La publication comprend une préface et de la performance d'emploi par David Ledbetter et de dépliant 'La page se tourne caractéristiques pour éviter la page difficile se transforme'. / Quatuor A Cordes