by Kevin T McEneaney String Quartets, Op. 59 # 1,2,3 (1806) by Ludwig van Beethoven are nicknamed “Razumovsky” after the Russian Count, who commissioned three quartets from Beethoven. Beethoven began working on the first of the three compositions on the day after his brother Carl’s marriage to a woman Beethoven despised (she was five months pregnant, nineteen years old, and from the middle class). Each of the three quartets was to employ a Russi…
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