"String Quartet No. 19 (Mozart) The String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, nicknamed ""Dissonance"" on account of its unusual slow introduction, is perhaps the most famous of his quartets. It is the last in the set of six quartets composed between 1782 and 1785 that he dedicated to Joseph Haydn. According to the catalogue of works Mozart began early the preceding year, the quartet was completed on 14 January, 1785. As is normal with Mozart's later quartets, it is in four movements: The first movement opens with ominous quiet Cs in the cello,"
"is known to modern listeners for its later use in the German national anthem, the Deutschlandlied. The quartet consists of four movements: The first movement of the quartet is in the home key of C major, in common time, and is written in sonata form. The second movement, in G major cut time, is in strophic variation form, with the ""Emperor's Hymn"" as the theme. The third movement, in C major and A minor, is a standard minuet and trio. The fourth movement, in C minor and C major, is in sonata form. Samuel Adler has singled out this work's"
"tone of anxiety. By contrast, the ""Adagio"" brings peace and resignation in C major, with a more lively episode in E flat major in the middle of the movement. Both the Scherzo and the Finale continue the passionate and energetic storm of the first movement. String Trios, Op. 9 (Beethoven) The three String Trios, Op. 9 were composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1797–98. He published them in Vienna in 1799, with a dedication to his patron Count Johann Georg von Browne (1767–1827). They were first performed by the violinist Ignaz Schuppanzigh with two colleagues from his string quartet. According"
"String Quartet No. 20 (Mozart) The String Quartet in D major, K. 499, was written in 1786 in Vienna by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was published by – if not indeed written for – his friend Franz Anton Hoffmeister. Because of this, the quartet has acquired the nickname Hoffmeister. Hoffmeister had started issuing a series of chamber-music publications in 1785, including Mozart's K. 499 as well as Joseph Haydn's Op. 42. There are four movements: This work, sandwiched between the six quartets he dedicated to Joseph Haydn (1782–5) and the following three Prussian Quartets (1789–90), intended to be dedicated to"
"Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra (Schoenberg) The Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra in B-flat is a work by the Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, freely composed after the Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 7 by George Frideric Handel. The work is divided into four movements: The Concerto was written in the summer of 1933. In May of that year Schoenberg had been forced to flee Berlin after the accession of the Nazi Party. He first went to Paris (where he reconverted from Lutheranism to the Judaism of his childhood). He spent the summer of 1933 with his wife and"
"string quartet version of his song, which he prepared later in 1797. <score vorbis=""1""> \version ""2.18.2"" \new Staff « \clef treble \key g \major { \new Lyrics \lyricmode { Gott4. er8 -- hal4 -- te Franz, den Kai -- ser, Un -- sern gu -- ten Kai -- ser Franz!2 Lang4. -- e8 le4 -- be Franz, der Kai -- ser, In des Glück -- es hell -- stem Glanz!2 Ihm4 er -- blü -- hen Lor -- beer -- rei -- ser, Wo er geht,4. zum8 Eh4 -- ren -- kranz!2 Gott4. er8 -- hal4 -- te Franz,4. den8"
"String Quintet, Op. 4 (Beethoven) The String Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 4, was composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1795. It was adapted from his Octet in E-flat major, Op. 103, which, despite its high opus number, was in fact composed by Beethoven in 1792/1793 but was published only in 1837, ten years after the composer's death. The Quintet was published in Vienna in 1796. The quintet has been viewed as a mere transcription of the octet. However, there are a few differences between the two works. In the first movement, there are significant changes in the exposition and"
"minutes. The Menuetto is distinguished by the evolution in the main minuet sections from a fairly conventional theme to a highly chromatic, driven transition. String Quartet No. 23 (Mozart) The String Quartet No. 23 in F major, K. 590, was written in June 1790 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It is the third of the Prussian Quartets. There are four movements: The quartet was written for and dedicated to the King of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm II, an amateur cellist. It is written in a similar style to the quartets of Joseph Haydn. Mozart and his friend Karl Lichnowsky met the king"
"String Quartet No. 23 (Mozart) The String Quartet No. 23 in F major, K. 590, was written in June 1790 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It is the third of the Prussian Quartets. There are four movements: The quartet was written for and dedicated to the King of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm II, an amateur cellist. It is written in a similar style to the quartets of Joseph Haydn. Mozart and his friend Karl Lichnowsky met the king in Potsdam in April 1789. Mozart played before the king in Berlin on 26 May of that year. A typical performance lasts around 26"
"String Quartets (Schoenberg) The Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg published four string quartets, distributed over his lifetime: String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7 (1905), String Quartet No. 2 in F minor, Op. 10 (1908), String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30 (1927), and the String Quartet No. 4, Op. 37 (1936). In addition to these, he wrote several other works for string quartet which were not published. The most notable was his early String Quartet in D major (1897). There was also a Presto in C major (c. 1895), a Scherzo in F major (1897), and later a Four-part"
"substantial ones in the development, reprise, and ending. The ensuing Andante employs new themes and involves significant changes in the ones retained. The Scherzo and finale are also substantially different: among other alterations, a second trio was added to the former and a new alternate theme was inserted in the latter. The quintet is structured in four movements: The work is scored for two violins, two violas and cello. A typical performance lasts for about 30 minutes. String Quintet, Op. 4 (Beethoven) The String Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 4, was composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1795. It was"
"String Quartet No. 3 (Beethoven) The String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 18, No. 3, was written by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1798 and 1800 and published in 1801, and dedicated to Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz. Although it is numbered third, it was the first quartet Beethoven composed. It consists of four movements: According to Steinberg, this is ""the gentlest, most consistently lyrical work [within Beethoven's Op. 18]"", except for the fourth movement, in which ""Beethoven first explores the idea of shifting the centre of gravity toward the end of a multimovement work"". The first movement starts with"
"String Quartet No. 1 (Beethoven) The String Quartet No. 1 in F major, Op. 18, No. 1, was written by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1798 and 1800, published in 1801, and dedicated to Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz. It is actually the second string quartet that Beethoven composed. The quartet consists of four movements: According to Beethoven's friend Karl Amenda, the second movement was inspired by the tomb scene from William Shakespeare's ""Romeo and Juliet"". The quartet was heavily revised between the version that Amenda first received and the one that was sent to the publisher a year later, including changing"
"String Quartet No. 14 (Schubert) The String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, known as Death and the Maiden, is a piece by Franz Schubert that has been called ""one of the pillars of the chamber music repertoire."" It was composed in 1824, after the composer suffered a serious illness and realized that he was dying. It is named for the theme of the second movement, which Schubert took from a song he wrote in 1817 of the same title. Some interpret it as Schubert's testament to death, and find that the theme of death is palpable in all four"
"emerging style. A String Quartet in C minor and the additional Rondo in C minor, also composed in 1862, were discovered decades after Bruckner's death. The later String Quintet in F Major of 1879, contemporaneous with the Fifth and Sixth symphonies, has been frequently performed. The Intermezzo in D minor, which was intended to replace its scherzo, is not frequently performed. A ""Symphonisches Präludium"" (Symphonic Prelude) in C minor was discovered by Mahler scholar Paul Banks in the Austrian National Library in 1974 in a piano duet transcription. Banks ascribed it to Gustav Mahler, and had it orchestrated by Albrecht"
"in the world! :| German women, German loyalty, German wine and German song Shall retain in the world Their old beautiful chime And inspire us to noble deeds During all of our life. |: German women, German loyalty, German wine and German song! :| Unity and justice and freedom For the German fatherland! Towards these let us all strive Brotherly with heart and hand! Unity and justice and freedom Are the safeguards of fortune; |: Flourish in the radiance of this fortune, Flourish, German fatherland! :|</poem> The melody of the ""Deutschlandlied"" was originally written by Joseph Haydn in 1797 to"
"in this numbering scheme. Symphony, K. 97 (Mozart) The Symphony in D major ""No. 47"", K. 97/73m, was probably written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1770 in Rome. The symphony is scored for two oboes, two trumpets and strings. In contemporary orchestras, it was also usual to include bassoons and harpsichord if they were available in the orchestra to reinforce the bass line and act as the continuo. The trumpets are silent in the second movement, in which the oboes are replaced by flutes. The duration is approximately 11 minutes. \relative c"" { </score> The symphony consists of the following"
"to Count Moritz von Fries, a patron to whom Beethoven also dedicated two other works of the same year—the Violin Sonatas No. 4 and No. 5—as well as his later Seventh Symphony. This quintet allegedly inspired Schubert to write his own string quintet in the same key (his scoring involves two cellos rather than two violas as in Beethoven's quintet). String Quintet, Op. 29 (Beethoven) The String Quintet in C major, Op. 29 written by Ludwig van Beethoven, was composed in 1801. This work is scored for string quartet and an extra viola (two violins, two violas, and cello). The"
"Carl Maria von Weber Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (18 or 19 November 1786 5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, and was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school. Weber's operas ""Der Freischütz"", ""Euryanthe"" and ""Oberon"" greatly influenced the development of the ""Romantische Oper"" (Romantic opera) in Germany. ""Der Freischütz"" came to be regarded as the first German ""nationalist"" opera, ""Euryanthe"" developed the ""Leitmotif"" technique to an unprecedented degree, while ""Oberon"" may have influenced Mendelssohn's music for ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" and, at the same time, revealed Weber's lifelong interest"
"rigorous fugue of his Adagio and Fugue K.546. About halfway into the movement, a contrasting theme is introduced, which moves in minims. The movement concludes with an enormous Mannheim crescendo, peaking at an implicit . String Quartet No. 9 (Beethoven) The String Quartet No. 9 in C major, Op. 59, No. 3, was written by Ludwig van Beethoven and published in 1808. This work is the third of three of his ""Razumovsky"" cycle of string quartets, and is a product of his ""middle"" period. It consists of four movements: The introductory ""andante con moto"" section of the first movement is"
"in 1648. Johann Crüger published it in the 1647 edition of his ""Praxis pietatis melica"". Below is the text in a modern version, and a 19th-century translation by Catherine Winkworth The melody is attributed also to Rinckart, but mostly to Johann Crüger, who published it. He was a tutor to the Blumenthal family and director of music at the St. Nicholas' Church, Berlin. <score vorbis=""1""> \new Staff « \clef treble \new Voice = ""Soprano"" » </score> It is claimed that after the Battle of Leuthen in 1757, an unknown Prussian soldier standing near Frederick the Great began singing it spontaneously,"
"String Quartet No. 17 (Mozart) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's String Quartet No. 17 in B-flat major, K. 458, nicknamed ""The Hunt"", is the fourth of the Quartets dedicated to Haydn. It was completed in 1784. It is in four movements: Neither Mozart nor Artaria called this piece ""The Hunt."" ""For Mozart's contemporaries, the first movement of K.458 evidently evoked the 'chasse' topic, the main components of which were a 6/8 time signature (sometimes featuring a strong upbeat) and triadic melodies based largely around tonic and dominant chords (doubtless stemming from the physical limitations of the actual hunting horns to notes of"
"of a developmental passage shortly after the return of the primary theme in the recapitulation . The minuet quotes the melody of another song by Schubert, ""Die Götter Griechenlands"", D. 677, from November 1819, a connection only first noticed more than a century after the work's composition by Willi . The opening of this melody recurs in inversion at the beginning of the trio, and is later echoed in the opening of the finale . String Quartet No. 13 (Schubert) The String Quartet No. 13 in A minor (the ""Rosamunde"" Quartet), D 804, Op. 29, was written by Franz Schubert"
"coins. The music is the hymn ""Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser"", written in 1797 by the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn as an anthem for the birthday of Francis II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and later of Austria. In 1841, the German linguist and poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the lyrics of """" as a new text for that music, counterposing the national unification of Germany to the eulogy of a monarch, lyrics that were considered revolutionary at the time. Along with the flag of Germany, which first appeared in its essentially ""modern"" form in 1778; it"
"on ""Licht"", but in Stockhausen's last period of creativity generally . Litanei 97 Litanei 97 is a choral work by German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, written in 1997. Although the words are taken from the text-composition cycle ""Aus den sieben Tagen"" and the conductor sings and plays elements from the Michael formula used in the composer's ""Licht"" cycle of operas, it is an independent work assigned the number 74 in Stockhausen's catalogue of works. It lasts about twenty minutes in performance. ""Litanei 97"" was composed in 1997 for the Europäische Musikfest für geistliche Musik, organised by Ewald Liske and held in"
"played before the king in Berlin on 26 May 1789, then returned to Vienna. This string quartet is a popular piece in the repertoire today. It is a piece written at the zenith of Mozart's powers as a chamber music composer. It is considered to be in a more relaxed style than the six quartets dedicated to Haydn. A typical performance lasts around 24 minutes. The middle part of the song ""Mozart's House"" by UK based indie electronic band Clean Bandit samples the piece. The song reached number 17 in the UK Singles Chart on 21 April 2013. String Quartet"
"Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include ""Der Rosenkavalier"", ""Elektra"", ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"" and ""Salome""; his Lieder, especially his ""Four Last Songs""; his tone poems, including ""Don Juan"", ""Death and Transfiguration"", ""Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks"", ""Also sprach Zarathustra"", ""Ein Heldenleben"", ""Symphonia Domestica"", and ""An Alpine Symphony""; and other instrumental works such as ""Metamorphosen"" and his Oboe Concerto. Strauss was also a prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, enjoying quasi-celebrity status"
"its title. The line ""Germany, Germany above all"" meant that the most important goal of 19th-century German liberal revolutionaries should be a unified Germany which would overcome loyalties to the local kingdoms, principalities, duchies and palatines (""Kleinstaaterei"") of then-fragmented Germany. The melody of the """" was written by Joseph Haydn in 1797 to provide music to the poem ""Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser"" (""God save Franz the Emperor"") by Lorenz Leopold Haschka. The song was a birthday anthem honouring Francis II (1768–1835), Habsburg emperor, and was intended as a parallel to Great Britain's ""God Save the King"". Haydn's work is"
"String Quartet No. 6 (Beethoven) The String Quartet No. 6 in B major, Op. 18, No. 6, was written between 1798 and 1800 by Ludwig van Beethoven and published in 1801, and dedicated to Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz. There are four movements: The first movement is in sonata form. The first theme starts in B with a conversation between the first violin and the cello. After a while the second violin takes over the conversation from the cello. It then modulates to the dominant of F major and then F minor for the second theme at around m. 45. After"
"to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (K.350 in the Köchel-Verzeichnis). Bernhard Flies Bernhard Flies (about 1770 in Berlin – ?) was a German amateur composer and a doctor of medicine. Little is known about Flies. He composed some piano pieces and songs. He is best known for the romantic music to the lullaby ""Schlafe, mein Prinzchen, schlaf ein"", (Sleep, my little prince, go to sleep) attributed to him, also known as ""Das Wiegenlied"" (the Cradle Song), from the theatre play ""Esther"" written by Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter (1746–1797). Recent research suggests that the song was originally composed by Johann Friedrich Anton Fleischmann. For"
"Litanei 97 Litanei 97 is a choral work by German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, written in 1997. Although the words are taken from the text-composition cycle ""Aus den sieben Tagen"" and the conductor sings and plays elements from the Michael formula used in the composer's ""Licht"" cycle of operas, it is an independent work assigned the number 74 in Stockhausen's catalogue of works. It lasts about twenty minutes in performance. ""Litanei 97"" was composed in 1997 for the Europäische Musikfest für geistliche Musik, organised by Ewald Liske and held in Schwäbisch Gmünd. The world premiere took place on 26 July 1997"
"String Quintet, Op. 29 (Beethoven) The String Quintet in C major, Op. 29 written by Ludwig van Beethoven, was composed in 1801. This work is scored for string quartet and an extra viola (two violins, two violas, and cello). The Op. 29 is Beethoven's only full-scale, original composition in the string quintet genre; of his other quintet works, the Op. 4 is an extensively reworked arrangement of the earlier Octet for Winds, Op. 103, the String Quintet Op. 104 is an arrangement of an earlier piano trio, and the later fugue is a fragmentary work. The composer dedicated this work"
"own craft and artistic vision”. String Quartet No. 3 (Beethoven) The String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 18, No. 3, was written by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1798 and 1800 and published in 1801, and dedicated to Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz. Although it is numbered third, it was the first quartet Beethoven composed. It consists of four movements: According to Steinberg, this is ""the gentlest, most consistently lyrical work [within Beethoven's Op. 18]"", except for the fourth movement, in which ""Beethoven first explores the idea of shifting the centre of gravity toward the end of a multimovement work""."