It’s the opening to the slow movement from Quartet No. 16, Opus 135, in which Beethoven wrote in the score, “Must It Be? -- It Must Be!” Each instrument enters one at a time to create a gorgeous ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 | Critic’s Notebook The Danish String Quartet presented the composer’s complete quartets over six extraordinary concerts at Alice ...

Ludwig van Beethoven’s three “Rasumovsky” string quartets, composed in autumn 1806 and dedicated to the Russian ambassador to Vienna, were so boldly original that the players who first performed them ...

The Grammy-nominated Dover Quartet, whose credits include a host of prestigious awards and residencies, concludes its complete Beethoven string quartet cycle on Cedille Records with a three-disc set ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The title comes from the composer himself. When the first players tried out Beethoven’s Opus 59 string quartets in ...