Beethoven op. 131 string quartet # 14 (2/5)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-jETlALAeE
Lindsay String Quartet

The String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, opus 131, by Ludwig van Beethoven was completed in 1826. (The number traditionally assigned to it is based on the order of its publication; it is actually his fifteenth quartet by order of composition.) About 40 minutes in length, it consists of seven movements to be played without a break, as follows: 1. Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo
2. Allegro molto vivace
3. Allegro moderato
4. Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile — Più mosso — Andante moderato e lusinghiero — Adagio — Allegretto — Adagio, ma non troppo e semplice — Allegretto
5. Presto
6. Adagio quasi un poco andante
7. Allegro

This work, which is dedicated to Baron Joseph von Stutterheim, was Beethoven's favourite from the late quartets. He is quoted as remarking to a friend: "thank God there is less lack of imagination than ever before"[citation needed]. Together with the quartets op. 130 and 132, it goes beyond anything Beethoven had previously written. (Op. 131 is the conclusion of that trio of great works, written in the order 132, 130 with the Grosse Fugue ending, 131; they may be profitably listened to and studied in that sequence.) It is said that upon listening to a performance of this quartet, Schubert remarked, "After this, what is left for us to write?"

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[TheSlaughterhouse]

i am starting to play guitar cant play worth a dam at the moment I have an acoustic I was wondering how to go about learning guitar from a classical standpoint because all of this music just enthralls me

[elias12186]

Get yourself a teacher! It costs money and is a pain in the butt, but you will learn good technique and one day be able to rock out. It is much harder to learn alone, and you will develop bad techniques which will be much harder to correct.

[TheSlaughterhouse]

i have no idea of this music at all as of the terminology and such of the craft i am only 16 and this is probably the most amazing thing I have heard before

[elias12186]

Very good :) Just don't show your friends, they will not understand it!

[whneo97]

1 dislike from beethoven...cos only he know he can interpret this piece better.

[CUBassoon]

the sniffing entirely takes away from the music for me. :(

[hammyhamlet411]

What is better Beethoven opus 130 or op 131?

[sofuckyouyeah]

@darktowersl im guessing hes just a pseudo

[darktowersl]

@martinsteve1349 interested to know what this means/what you mean by this

[martinsteve1349]

the tonal manipulation is magnificent

[msnoranettlerash]

@whneo97 Or maybe he disliked it cos he couldn't hear it

[Exanimousx]

@dildoronk I tend to listen to both, and I am elitist in my anti-elitism

[dildoronk]

@TheSlaughterhouse I agree with elias12186. My friends laugh at me for listening to classical music, while they listen to whats at the top10. In my head, I laugh quietly at them.

[cstrey14]

I hope for Art's sake that music such as this can sprout again, whether from those inspired and willful few, or those fewer whose magnificence has been born with them. May society never deter the Beauty of Art with its wrong majority. May Art grow forever!

[manthasagittarius]

@alexglondon Thanks! They look very good.