HAYDN STRING QUARTETS VOL IV OP 20 SUN QUARTETS

Softcover Book

Publisher: Henle
Voicing: Study Score
Format: Softcover
Composer: Joseph Haydn
Editor: Georg Feder, Sonja Gerlach

This study edition complements the parts of the String Quartets op. 20 that have already been published in Henle Urtext (HN 208); a new preface by Christin Heitmann provides illuminating background information. Haydn did not assign the nickname Sun Quartets: it alludes to an edition of the time, in which the title page was decorated with a rising sun. The Quartets op. 20 are the last series in a group of earlier string quartets, but are clearly ahead of their time. The demanding fugues which close three of the six quartets are a particular structural feature.

Item #: 051489208
UPC: 884088409609
Size: 9.5"  x  6.75"
Pages: 116
Stock #: HL51489208