Prazak String Quartet / Haydn Op. 96 Minuetto Allegretto

[music880216]

I saw them in Montreal. The first violonist dropped his bow while playing! Even professionals make small mistakes! Excellent quartet

[irondawson]

Bravo

[embcomposer]

Muy buena interpretación, robusta, con un buen fraseo, en plena conciencia del discurso musical. Bravo!

[Mancius87]

Haydn doesn´t have op. 96. The last is op. 77.

[GeniusHaydn]

Excellent.. More Haydn.. Haydn's S.Q.'s are the finest quartets of the classical period, maybe of all time. What a marvelous composer. Why do you think Mozart admired him so much...

[GeniusHaydn]

I believe this is S.Q. in D major, Op. 50, #6-III. Menuetto: Allegretto.

[PTCello]

Absolutely correct. Mozart himself said that Haydn showed him how to write a quartet, and Mozart's best quartets are the 6 that he dedicated to Haydn. Haydn's best quartets are the best of the genre. I prefer the opus 20 and 33, but consider this: if you eliminated, at random, HALF of Haydn's quartets, he would Still be the greatest quartetist who ever lived.

[GeniusHaydn]

PT-Its not the amount of SQ produced by the manner in which he wrote. H's SQs seem to capture a vast range of human emotions. In the classical period, there were many fine Quartetists and Quintetiests, Dittersdorf(12), Vanhal(70), Pleyel(57), and Boccherini(91) to name a few. I have collected their SQs/SQus and believe they made great contributions. More of Vanhal and Pleyel need to recorded, they are very good. But my favorite are H's I enjoy all of them, great monments in all Opuses.

[pancakeman357]

Genius, you justify Haydn being the best because Mozart admired him so much, but if Mozart's opinion can judge who is the greatest, it means Mozart himself is greater.

[GeniusHaydn]

I think you need to listen to Haydn's SQs as well as Dittersdorf, Vanhal, Vranicky, Pleyel, Boccherini and Rosetti. These are all contemporaries of Mozart, then you will find out who was the best in the classical period as far as a SQ composer. What are you, 21 yrs old or something??Do some homework kid.....