Word: rasoumowski
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wednesday evening the London String Quartet performed Beethoven's three Rasoumowski Quartets in Sanders Theater, and those who were terminate through to the best concert of the year. One of the finest of its kind in the world, the group certainly confirmed its reputation in the different program...
Beethoven had completed the Eroica and the Fifth Symphonies as well as the Waldstein and Appassionnts when he turned to the composition of the three quartets sponsored by Count Rasoumowski. At the very beginning of the first, the change in the composer is apparent: a paradoxical humor later expressed in the Eighth Symphony and an increasing tendency to write for himself which culminated in the late piano sonatas...
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