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Beethoven in Manuscript: Sources for the Late Quartets – MASTERCLASS
April 19 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Free
In 2024, SJSU’s Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies acquired two important Beethoven manuscripts connected with the composer’s late string quartets. These sources tell a compelling story about the life of the now profoundly deaf composer as he worked on some of his most challenging and hauntingly beautiful music. The first manuscript is a page from his so-called conversation books, which he used to communicate when he could no longer hear. This page includes a musical sketch of the Cavatina movement from the String Quartet in B-flat Major, op. 130, which Beethoven apparently composed “in the tears of melancholy.” The second is the copyist’s score of his String Quartet in E-flat Major, op. 127, which documents part of the process of revising and refining the music before publication.
