MUSI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Minuet, Cadenza, Barbara Ployer
25 May 2016
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Composed for two violins, viola, and cello: a genre of chamber music. No conductor, performers function equally and communicate directly among themselves: the most historically important genre of chamber music. Genre created by joseph haydn: known as the father of the string quartet , four movements: fast-slow-minuet-fast, scherzos replace minuet in some quartets. Could be performed by amateur or professional musicians. Often played for by the performers for their own pleasure, without an audience: haydn and mozart. Played together in string quartets in 1784-1785. Mozart dedicated a set of quartets to haydn: haydn: opus 76. Haydn composed the quartet during the summer of 1797. Known as the emperor because of its famous theme. Melody composed in january 1797 in response to the military and political events sweeping across europe (napolean invaded austrian empire in 1796) Text honoured emperor franz ii. first sung on his birthday, february 1, 1797. Text was later altered to accommodate the names of subsequent emperors.
