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Franz Asplmayr
Six Quatours Concertantes, Opus 2
Edited by Dennis Monk
| C 56 |
ISBN 0-89579-441-1 |
(1999) x+85 pp. |
$43.00 |
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ISBN 978-0-89579-441-3
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| C 56P |
Parts set (vn.1; vn.2; va.; vc.) |
$44.00 |
Franz Asplmayr was a prolific composer and prominent professional violinist
in Vienna during the eighteenth century. His collaboration with the choreographer
Jean George Noverre resulted in several groundbreaking ballets, and Asplmayr
also composed numerous string quartets, symphonies, string trios, and partitas.
His works were performed in distinguished venues and were widely disseminated
both in manuscript and in printed form. In spite of his position in the
musical life of Vienna his work has been largely ignored by modern musicologists
and, perhaps worse, many serious errors about his life and works have been
uncritically repeated. The string quartets in this volume, composed before
Haydn’s Opus 9 quartets, represent an important stage in the development
of the genre. Though first published in Paris, these quartets anticipated
many of the most important style characteristics of the developing Viennese
style, a style which has been greatly misunderstood in the shadow of Mozart
and Haydn.
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