The "Galitzin" Quartets of Beethoven: OPP. 127, 132, 130
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995.
First Edition. Hardcover.
First Edition, First Printing.
This study is an analysis of the first three of Beethoven's late quartets Opp. 127, 132, and 130, commissioned by Prince Nikolai Galitzin. These five quartets, usually considered as a group, were written in the same period as the Missa solemnis and the Ninth Symphony, and are among the composer's most profound musical statements. Daniel Chua believes that of the five quartets the three that he studies here trace a process of disintegration, whereas the last two, Opp. 131 and 135, reintegrate the language that Beethoven himself had destabilized. Chua analyses the deeper structures of the music and interprets the quartets as radical critiques of both music and society reflecting the preoccupations of the German Romantics and the postructuralists of today and opens a further discussion of cultural, political, and philosophical issues.
Item #901205ISBN: 0691044031
6-1/8 x 9-1/2, black cloth, 286pp, notes, biblio., index.
Thumbing fore-edge, light foxing to edges of text block, clean of owner's marks, tight, square, very good in rubbed dust wrapper, in protective mylar.
Price: $90.00