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Stephen Johnson explores his favourite Beethoven quartet, the Quartet in C, from Beethoven's Opus 59 series. They were commissioned in 1806 by Count Razumovsky, who was the Russian Ambassador to ...

Summer’s a wonderful time to be a classical music lover, especially if you have some vacation coming. There are great music festivals all over the world, including the White Nights Festival in St.

Why should Beethoven’s string quartets have come to represent the pinnacle of achievement in western classical music? After all, this is a modest, intimate format involving just four players, better ...