String Quartet no.16 in F major op. 135 by Beethoven
Some notes on the composition :
1st movement: Lots of Repetition with tension. Tension.
2nd movement: Solomn without much hope in the beginning, but follows with several 7th chords with surprises, ends with tranquility.
3rd movement: Contrasting 3 chords repetition for introduction. Counter point continues, Fugue. Sounding characteristics with 2 bars of repeated notes on the accompaniment playing with the melody line.
4th movement: Ending with some recapitulations of the 1 st movement's motif, With Tension released. Personally I feel it is a weak ending....
Performance by Hagen Quartett.
In comparison with the String Quartet in D minor, " Death and the Maiden", D 810 in the same CD, musicians seem to love this piece much more, performed with extreme moving and Dramatic passion.
I love the dotted main motif in 1 st movement, chromatic ascending makes it very Grand...
2nd movement: Sorrow in the beginning, theme and variation form , change to pure romantic...playful..Majestic ...peace.
3rd movement, ABA . Scherzo
4th movement, introduces with unison theme brings out the inviting leadership atmosphere.
Again, dotted theme with 16th notes accompaniments which imitates the horse running
Lots of unison makes a strong ending.
He wrote his piece when he realized that his health is in danger. As he wrote to his friend : "Think of a man whose health can never be restored, and who from sheer despair makes matters worse instead of better. Think, I say, of a man whose brightest hopes have come to nothing, to whom love and friendship are but torture, and whose enthusiasm for the beautiful is fast vanishing; and ask yourself if such a man is not truly unhappy."
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