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The Galitzin Quartets of Beethoven - Opp. 127, 132, 130 (Hardcover)
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The Galitzin Quartets of Beethoven - Opp. 127, 132, 130 (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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This study is an analysis of the first three of Beethoven's late
quartets, Opp. 127, 132, and 130, commissioned by Prince Nikolai
Galitzin. The five late quartets, usually considered as a group,
were written in the same period as the Missa solemnis and the Ninth
Symphony, and are among the composer's most profound musical
statements. Daniel K. L. Chua believes that of the five quartets
the three that he studies trace a process of disintegration,
whereas the last two, Opp. 131 and 135, reintegrate the language
that Beethoven himself had destabilized. Through analyses that
unearth peculiar features characteristic of the surface and of the
deeper structures of the music, Chua interprets the "Galitzin"
quartets as radical critiques of both music and society, a view
first proposed by Theodore Adorno. From this perspective, the
quartets necessarily undo the act of analysis as well, forcing the
analytical traditions associated with Schenker and Schoenberg to
break up into an eclectic mixture of techniques. Analysis itself
thus becomes problematic and has to move in a dialectical and
paradoxical fashion in order to trace Beethoven's logic of
disintegration. The result is a new way of reading these works that
not only reflects the preoccupations of the German Romantics of
that time and the poststructuralists of today, but also opens a
discussion of cultural, political, and philosophical issues.
Originally published in 1995. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
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