Große Fuge, op 133 has been performed in Montpellier, Montréal and Paris…
Overtura (Allegro); Fuga (Allegro); Meno mosso e moderato; Allegro molto e con brio
This immense fugue was originally written as the finale of Beethoven’s quartet in
The movement that has since become known as the “Grosse Fuge, op. 133” was unlike any finale composed up until that time. Monumental and dissonant, the fugue was as difficult for its earliest performers to play as it was for its earliest listeners to comprehend. In the part, Beethoven marked it “partly free, partly studied”. The main fugal subject is announced at the opening and becomes the subject of a long and forceful double fugue. Then comes a key change and a second fugue based on the subsidiary theme of the first fugue. The mood is soft and lyrical, by contrast with the opening. This is followed by a sort of scherzo interlude and a coda based on the angular intervals of the opening theme.
Igor Stravinsky perhaps summed up this extraordinary piece best when he called it “contemporary music that will be contemporary forever.”
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June 2005
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Série QB
BarryBeethovenHaider |
In person
Montréal (Québec)
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4
Marc 2009
8:00 pm
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Série QB
BeethovenBhagwatiCage |
In person
Montréal (Québec)
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15
Marc 2009
10:45 am
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BeethovenBoudreauFrehnerKoering |
In person Free admission
Montpellier (Hérault, France)
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Marc 2009
4:00 pm
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BeethovenBoudreauFrehnerKoering |
In person
Paris (France)
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