Quartetto Alla Maniera Italiana * Presumed Beethoven - Six String Quartets Anh. 2 [New CD] 6/9/23 Delroy Williams

Delroy Williams

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Quartetto Alla Maniera Italiana * Presumed Beethoven - Six String Quartets Anh. 2 [New CD] 6/9/23 Delroy WilliamsIn 1927, at the time of the first Beethoven centenary, the celebrated French musicologist Saint Foix drew attention to an anonymous manuscript collection of six quartets that once belonged to the publisher Domenico (III) Artaria and is today preserved at the Berlin State Library. He conjectured that these pieces could be the very first experiments of a young Beethoven, then still an adolescent, in a genre that he would properly inaugurate when he