The Language of the Rasumovsky Quartets: Beethoven and Robert Simpson

Sinopsis del libro

While working for the BBC Robert Simpson gave an illustrated TV lecture on the last of Beethoven's three 'Rasumovsky' string quartets, Op.59. This talk was so well received that he was strongly pressed to write a complete study of Beethoven's Op.59, but he countered that he did not wish to write any more words about…