The LaSalle String Quartet II Matyas Seiber and Beethoven, part 1
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From Cincinnati we present the fourth of six programs by the LA Sal
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quartet the series is produced by WG U.S. of the University of
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Cincinnati radio station and the programs are made possible by contributions from the
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friends of WGA you see a lot more tat is now in its
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13th year of residence at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music.
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The quartet members are Walter Levine and Henry Meyer of violins Peter chemists
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are Viola and Jack Kirsteen cello. Later in the
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program we are to hear the quartet in a minor Opus 132
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by Beethoven. Born in Budapest in
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1905 my chess Scheiber studied composition was all time
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Corday at the Hungarian Academy of Music. Upon completion of his studies in one
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thousand twenty five he spent a few years traveling to the United States Central and
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South America and subsequently was appointed professor at the Conservatory of Music
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in Frankfurt from 1935 on Mr Scheiber lived in
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London. Teaching composition and conducting his own works in
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1960 while on a visit to South Africa. SCHEIBER died in an
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automobile accident. A second quartet was written in
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1934 35 and consists of three movements
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the form of the first two movements is modeled on classical prototypes the
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first sonata allegro the second untitled and remet so
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corresponding to the stylized dance of the classical period is here based on a dance of
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the 20th century the blues. The third movement is a telescope
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version of slow movement and finale in a complex Rondo
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design. The whole work is based on a single 12 tone row
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used with considerable freedom. We hear the quartet number
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two of my chess Scheiber played by the last
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souled quartet.
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Oh.
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Due to.
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The.
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The Be.
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The only.
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The end.
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With.
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The quartet number two by the late hung Gary and composer
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much else. SCHEIBER
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Beethoven's 15th quartet one of the last five works in his life
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was composed in 18 25 as a commissioned for Prince gullet scene
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who had offered him fifty Duckett's for remuneration which did not arrive until a composer had
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been dead for some time. By 18 25 Beethoven had become
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a virtual recluse and misanthrope due to his deafness inescapable
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loneliness and constant illness a new attack of abdominal element
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in the spring of 1825 explains the heading of the slow movement song of
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Thanksgiving offered to the Deity by a convalescent in the
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Lydian Mode followed by two later sections headed feeling
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new strength. Beethoven had become considerably interested in the works of
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Palestrina during his last years and for this movement adopted one of the ancient church
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modes Lydian throughout the quartet. One is struck by
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some of the extremely dissonant passages which come about through the rugged
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individualism of the four instruments in the pursuit of their course.
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The quartet in a minor Opus 132 by Beethoven
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in performance the last quartet.
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