5. The Other “Razumovsky” Quartets: Franz Weiss’s Op. 8 and the Formation of Vienna’s Kennerpublikum

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 6
4. Introduction 7
5. 1. His Master’s Voice? Ries, Reputation, and the String Quartet 14
6. 2. The “Middle-Period” String Quartets of Spohr and Beethoven 43
7. 3. Counterpoint without Anxiety? Andreas Romberg’s String Quartets Op. 2, Dedicated to Haydn 66
8. 4. On the Fugues in Anton Reicha’s Quatuor Scientifique: Between Tradition and Innovation 108
9. 5. The Other “Razumovsky” Quartets: Franz Weiss’s Op. 8 and the Formation of Vienna’s Kennerpublikum 130
10. 6. Hyacinthe Jadin and the Sound of Revolution: Recovering French String Quartet Aesthetics in 1790s Paris 170
11. 7. “One for the Rode”: The Contribution of Pierre Rode and the Quatuor Brillant to the Early Nineteenth- Century String Quartet 207
12. 8. A Surprise to the Ears, an Amusement for the Eyes: Compositional Strategy and Audience Response to String Quartets ca. 1800 228
13. 9. The Canonization of Beethoven’s String Quartets in the Musikalisches Taschenbuch auf das Jahr 1803 248
14. Contributors 268
15. Index 271