Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Perspectives

Beethoven Quartet Audiences: Actual, Potential, Ideal
JOSEPH KERMAN

Performing the Beethoven Quartets in Their First Century
ROBERT WINTER

Beethoven: Beyond Classicism
MAYNARD SOLOMON

The Patrons and Publics of the Quartets: Music, Culture, and
Society in Beethoven's Vienna
LEON BOTSTEIN

The Quartets in Performance: A Player's Perspective
ROBERT MARTIN

Notes on the Quartets
MICHAEL STEINBERG

The Early Quartets
String Quartet in F Major, after the Piano Sonata in E Major,
Op. 14 no. I
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18 no. I
String Quartet in G Major, Op. 18 no. 2
String Quartet in D Major, Op. 18 no. 3
String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 18 no. 4
String Quartet in A Major, Op. 18 no. 5
String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 18 no. 6

The Middle Quartets
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 59 no. I
String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 59 no. 2
String Quartet in C Major, Op. 59 no. 3
String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 74
String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95, Quartett[o] serioso

The Late Quartets
String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 127
String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 130
String Quartet inC-Sharp Minor, Op. 131
String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132
Grosse Fuge for String Quartet, Op. I33
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 135

Glossary
Index

About the Author

Robert Winter is Professor of Music at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of Music for Our Time (1992) and co-author of The Beethoven Sketchbooks (California, 1985). Robert Martin is Assistant Dean of Humanities and Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles.