Beethoven Quartet Companion

Robert Winter is Professor of Music at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of Music for Our Time (1992) and co-author of The Beethoven Sketchbooks (California, 1985). Robert Martin is Assistant Dean of Humanities and Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPerspectivesBeethoven Quartet Audiences: Actual, Potential, IdealJOSEPH KERMANPerforming the Beethoven Quartets in Their First CenturyROBERT WINTERBeethoven: Beyond ClassicismMAYNARD SOLOMONThe Patrons and Publics of the Quartets: Music, Culture, andSociety in Beethoven's ViennaLEON BOTSTEINThe Quartets in Performance: A Player's PerspectiveROBERT MARTINNotes on the QuartetsMICHAEL STEINBERGThe Early QuartetsString Quartet in F Major, after the Piano Sonata in E Major,Op. 14 no. IString Quartet in F Major, Op. 18 no. IString Quartet in G Major, Op. 18 no. 2String Quartet in D Major, Op. 18 no. 3String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 18 no. 4String Quartet in A Major, Op. 18 no. 5String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 18 no. 6The Middle QuartetsString Quartet in F Major, Op. 59 no. IString Quartet in E Minor, Op. 59 no. 2String Quartet in C Major, Op. 59 no. 3String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 74String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95, Quartett[o] seriosoThe Late QuartetsString Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 127String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 130String Quartet inC-Sharp Minor, Op. 131String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132Grosse Fuge for String Quartet, Op. I33String Quartet in F Major, Op. 135GlossaryIndex