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Nancy November, Cultivating String Quartets in Beethoven's Vienna (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2017). x + 252 pp. £60.00.

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Nancy November, Cultivating String Quartets in Beethoven's Vienna (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2017). x + 252 pp. £60.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2019

Katharina Uhde
Katharina Uhde*
Affiliation:
Valparaiso [email protected]
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Nineteenth-Century Music Review , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , April 2020 , pp. 134 - 139
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References

1 Moskovitz, Marc D. and Todd, R. Larry, Beethoven's Cello: Five Revolutionary Sonatas and Their World (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2017)Google Scholar; Kinderman, William, ed., The String Quartets of Beethoven (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2010)Google Scholar; Watson, Angus, Beethoven's Chamber Music in Context (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2010)Google Scholar.

2 Nancy November based a whole monograph on theatricality in 2013, which provides useful context for the present work; see her Beethoven's Theatrical Quartets: Opp. 59, 74 and 95 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).

3 Weber, William, The Great Transformation of Musical Taste: Concert Programming from Haydn to Brahms (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)Google Scholar.

4 Most of the translations are fine, but some German passages contain small errors, which a native German speaker could have helped to avoid. For example, the plural of Harmoniestück is not Harmoniestücken but Harmoniestücke.