Format : Sheet music
In his late work Beethoven devoted himself intensively to the forms of baroque polyphony. He originally composed the Große Fuge as the final movement of the String Quartet in Bb Op.130. However accordingto one critic the listeners of the time considered it to be 'unintelligible like Chinese'. At the urging of his publisher Beethoven then replaced it with a newly composed closing movement for the quartet. In addition he alsomade a version of the Große Fuge for Piano four-hands. The autograph of this arrangement was recently rediscovered. Courtesy of the Juillard School of Music Henle was able to consult it for the first time fortheir new critical edition.
SKU: BA.BVK02464
ISBN 9783761824641. 29.5 x 35 cm inches. Key: B-flat major. Text Language: English, German. Preface: Rebmann, Martina.
Faksimile der Autographe in: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; Moravske Zemske Muzeum, Brno; Badische Landesbibliothek, Karlsruhe; Biblioteka Jagiellonska, Krakow; Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris; Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.
SKU: HL.51484211
ISBN 9790201842110. UPC: 888680601201. 10.25x13 inches.
Contents:String Quartet E flat major op. 127String Quartet B flat major op. 130 - Grand Fugue op. 133String Quartet c sharp minor op. 131String Quartet a minor op. 132String Quartet F major op. 135Anhang: Allegretto für Streichquartett b minor WoO 210Anhang: Streichquartett (Frühfassung des 1. Satzes) c sharp minor op. 131.