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This quartet was on the whole very well put together... Herr Schuppanzigh has an individual piquant way of playing which is very suitable to the humorous quartets of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven... He executes with clarity, though not always absolutely cleanly, the difficult passages, which the local
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On New Year's Eve 1815, a fire destroyed the Razumovsky's palace and Schuppanzigh's quartet was disbanded. Schuppanzigh left Vienna, and for several years was based in St. Petersburg while making concert tours of
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became second violinist, and the other members were as before. They gave concerts which were open to the public on subscription; it was unusual during this period to give concerts of music for string quartet.
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formed a string quartet: it included Karl Holz and Joseph Linke. It performed, with breaks and changes to its membership, until 1849, when Jansa moved to London; the quartet was then led by
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is often truly singing and moving. He also leads his well-picked colleagues skilfully and truly in the spirit of the composer.
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in 1795. Its membership varied; the more regular players, all aged under 20, were Louis Sina playing second violin,
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virtuosi seem to avoid altogether. He also accents very correctly and significantly. His
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Paul Nettl. "String Quartets" and "Galitzin, Prince Nikolaus Boris" in
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In 1805 Schuppanzigh formed his own quartet; the other players were
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In 1824, Beethoven, who had not written a string quartet since his
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After Schuppanzigh's death in 1830, the violinist and composer
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Ignaz Schuppanzigh assembled an informal string quartet for
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Paul Nettl. "Schuppanzigh, Ignaz" and "Linke, Joseph" in
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Index

string quartet
Vienna
violinist
Ignaz Schuppanzigh
Ludwig van Beethoven
string quartets

Josef Kriehuber
Prince Lichnowsky
Franz Weiss
viola
Nikolaus Kraft
cello
Op. 18
Joseph Mayseder
Antonín Kraft
Andrey Razumovsky
Joseph Linke
Johann Friedrich Reichardt

Poland
Prussia
Karl Holz
Op. 95
String Quartet Op. 127
Nikolai Borisovich Galitzin
String Quartet Op. 130
String Quartet Op. 132
Schubert
A minor Quartet (D. 804)

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