Monday, August 9, 2010

The Haydn Project

We started our Haydn project tonight - we're going to play all of the Haydn quartets.  There are an awful lot of them - I think the official number is 83, although on the web you can find folks that will say there are 68, and others that will say more than 90 (that's kind of cheating, don't you think?  Let's be specific, shall we?).  We're playing off of the Peters Edition, which has the quartets divided into four volumes.  The first two volumes have the 30 famous (berühmte) quartets, and the last two have the remaining 53 in our official count.

The first one in the book was Opus 17 number 5 - it's a nice little quartet (it's short - the cello part is only 3 pages for the whole quartet!), but it definitely has some funny little musical twists that can catch you if you're not paying attention.

We play again in September!

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