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Walter Meyer ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>Is the SQ performance a different arrangement from those I've heard played
>by other quartets? If so, why would Haydn have prepared more than one
>string quartet arrangement? If not, I repeat my first question.
Sorry, by SQ I meant String Quartet (and not Shost...).
Yup, I do recall reading somewhere that there is no conclusive evidence
that haynd himself made the string quartet version of the Seven Last Words.
>This is getting unnerving. I used to say in jest, and now, less so, that
>none of Haydn's works seem to be by him, viz., the St. Anthony Chorale,
>the "Serenade", one or more of "his" cello concertos, etc. And now, the
>quartet version of the Seven Last Words?
Well, nobody's doubting that the *music* is his (unlike the St. Anthony
Chorale and Serenade), just the arrangement for four strings.
Deryk Barker
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