Defining the String Quartet II: Beethoven
Discover Beethoven’s transformative achievements in the string quartet realm. Learn to analyze and interpret his music, and explore the evolution of his compositions throughout his career. Join Professor Stephen Hinton and the St. Lawrence String Quartet for a critical overview of Beethoven’s quartets, with live performances and insightful discussions. Enhance your understanding of Beethoven’s genius with this immersive course.
What you will learn
- About Beethoven?s transformative achievements in the realm of the string quartet
- Strategies for describing, analyzing, and interpreting Beethoven?s music
- How Beethoven?s compositions evolved during his career and how they have been viewed throughout history
- For a general introduction to Beethoven, see Lewis Lockwood’s Beethoven: The Music and the Life or Jan Swafford’s biography, Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph.
- For a general introduction to Beethoven’s string quartets, see Winter and Martin’s edited volume, The Beethoven Quartet Companion.
- If you’d like to dig deeper into scholarly questions about the string quartets, see Joseph Kerman’s monograph The Beethoven Quartets.
Program Overview
Taught by music historian and Stanford Professor Stephen Hinton in collaboration with the university’s ensemble-in-residence, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, you?ll be given a critical overview of Beethoven?s quartets and their reception history. Using a mix of lectures, discussions and copious demonstrations, Professor Hinton will focus in detail on three complete quartets: one early, one middle, and one late. As a special course feature, you?ll view live performances by the SLSQ recorded in Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall.
User Reviews
Be the first to review “Defining the String Quartet II: Beethoven”
You must be logged in to post a review.
There are no reviews yet.