There was nothing but the Maurin Quartette, which gave five or six concerts every winter in the Salle Pleyel, and played Beethoven's last quartettes there.
To his prompting it is that we owe the lovely series of quartettes which Haydn wrote--still as fresh and full of serene beauty as when first tried over by the virtuosi of Weinzirl.
Apart from this work, I took in hand a quartette society, made up of the soloists of the orchestra, who were anxious to study the right interpretation of the various quartettes I had recommended.
I have since kept up this kind of work, and had made some quartettes and double–basses for the Exposition; but finding nothing novel in all this finished work, I resolved to make something colossal—an octobasse!
Scotland has trios of witches, Paris has quartettes of old gossiping hags; and the "Thou shalt be King" could be quite as mournfully hurled at Bonaparte in the Carrefour Baudoyer as at Macbeth on the heath of Armuyr.
In the antechamber, three violins and a flute softly played quartettes by Haydn.
Her chamber music includes four string quartettes and two trios.
It consists of fourquartettes for piano and strings in B flat, D, E, and G minor, also three string quartettes.
Her string quartetteshave won notice, also her piano duos, a violin suite, some flute and piano pieces, and several piano solos and songs.
Helene Liebmann, about fifteen years later, produced several quartettes of the same sort, as well as two piano trios and a number of violin sonatas, piano pieces, and songs.
Bertin won further musical fame by her string quartettes and trios, as well as her choruses and songs.
He has written also a set of quartettes and trios for women's voices, and quartettes for men's voices.
Just then, four of the artists then present sat down to play the last three quartettes of Haydn, which had just appeared in print.
The Haydn quartettes were then played through, and with a degree of perfection which, it need not be said, left nothing to be desired.
The Quartettes of Haydn are too well known to need more than mention here.
Spohr, Louis, Violinist and composer; his Quartettes and Duets .
His Quartettes are very pleasing compositions; they are chiefly "Solo Quartettes.
The Quartettes of Giardini and Pugnani were laid aside to give place to these inspired compositions.
The symphonies are only larger string quartettes, for, in the order of the themes, the general manner of treating them and the principles of contrast or relief which actuated them, the quartettes are sonatas, as also are the symphonies.
After this came the last quartettesfor strings, compositions which have been much written about, but which time has shown to be among the most beautiful and understandable of all that great master produced.
He desired such pieces as could be produced in private circles, and would therefore prefer quartettes and quintettes for stringed instruments, and sextettes, octettes and nonettes for stringed and wind instruments.
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