Beethoven: die Streichquartette
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- Subject according curriculum
- Musical Analysis
- Teachers
- Prof. Volkhardt Preuss
- Scope
- Fridays, 9:00–10:30
- Room
- BP 11
- Duration
- 1.5 Semesterwochenstunden
- Description
On the Road to the Beethoven Year 2027. We will trace a path from the early quartets, Op. 18, through the middle period (the Rasumovsky Quartets, Op. 59, and the Quartets, Op. 74 and 95) to the late works, the Quartets, Op. 127–135. The string quartet as an exercise: we practice listening into an intimate, experimental, diary-like world that reflects the state of the soul and the historical context without embellishment. It reveals how, in Op. 18, Beethoven slowly breaks away from Haydn while simultaneously building upon his legacy. Everything is still joyful and life-affirming, but later comes a retreat into his inner life, as can be experienced in the late quartets—a retreat his contemporaries perceived as “eccentric.” And yet there is no rupture between these two poles; they are the starting and ending points of a consistent line of compositional development that points beyond Beethoven himself. For this reason, his influence on the string quartet in the 19th and 20th centuries will also be a topic of discussion.
- Literature
will be announced during the seminar
- Credits
- 2 Creditpoints
- Modules
- Musiktheoretisch-/wissenschaftliches Modul 1, Musiktheoretisch-/wissenschaftliches Modul 2, Musiktheoretisches/Musikwissenschaftliches Wahlmodul Instrumental, Wahlmodul freie Wahl (alle Studiengänge)