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The Beethoven Quartets

Name: The Beethoven Quartets
Author: Joseph Kerman
ISBN: 9780393009095

by Joseph Kerman

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Synopsis

A critical study of the structure, style, and significance of the sixteen string quartets.

About the Author, Joseph Kerman

Joseph Kerman (born 1924) is a writer on music and a musicologist. He is a professor emeritus at University of California, Berkeley. His many works include The Elizabethan Madrigal (1962), The Beethoven Quartets (1967), The Kafka Sketchbook (1970), The Masses and Motets of William Byrd (1980), The New Grove Beethoven (1983, with Alan Tyson), Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology (1985), Opera as Drama (1988), Write All These Down (1994), Opera and the Morbidity of Music (2008), and many more.