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The Spruce Quartet will be performing two string quartets from very different composers, Beethoven and Shostakovich, but both interpret Russian themes and music. First, Dmitri Shostakovich's 8th ...

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 ...

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Perhaps wary of the shadows of Haydn and Mozart, whose string quartets were of such extraordinary caliber, Beethoven took his time entering the genre. Even after he started, he had second thoughts.