Quatuor Modigliani offers a complete survey of the string quartets of Franz Schubert. Though all of these works have been recorded and performed with varying degrees of regularity, the composer's late, mature quartets are much more popular in recordings and on the concert stage. Written when he was a teenager, Schubert's early quartets are influenced understandably by the music of the Classical period, especially Mozart and Haydn, to be performed by family members and schoolmates. The development of Schubert as a composer ...
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Quatuor Modigliani offers a complete survey of the string quartets of Franz Schubert. Though all of these works have been recorded and performed with varying degrees of regularity, the composer's late, mature quartets are much more popular in recordings and on the concert stage. Written when he was a teenager, Schubert's early quartets are influenced understandably by the music of the Classical period, especially Mozart and Haydn, to be performed by family members and schoolmates. The development of Schubert as a composer is heard throughout his quartets, even between the relatively short period from his first (1810) to tenth (1813), but especially apparent is the composer's growth during his hiatus from writing for string quartet. He set aside the form after completing his eleventh quartet in 1816 until another attempt was made in 1820. The resulting Quartettsatz was left unfinished, and even though it is only a single-movement work, it was published as his twelfth quartet; the Quartettsatz arguably...
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