Joseph Haydn: String Quartet Op 77 No 2 I heard this quartet again today, and I came to the awareness of the huge and profound impact that Joseph Haydn had on so much of the …
Vaughan Williams first composed this work in 1914. The premiere of The Lark Ascending was delayed because of the outbreak of World War I, and so it did not take place until 1920. The first …
Beethoven completed his String Quartet in C# Minor in May 1826. He may have heard it in a private performance before he died, but it was apparently not played publically until 1835. Beethoven’s long evolving experiments …