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  • Pražák quartet, © Photo: Monika Navrátilová
    Pražák quartet, © Photo: Monika Navrátilová
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    Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Recital Hall, © Photo: Hans Roggen

Pražák Quartet: Schoenberg, Suk & Beethoven

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Discover the works that began new movements in the repertoire for String Quartet. The acclaimed Czech Pražák Quartet plays early works by Beethoven, Schoenberg, and Josef Suk.

Neither Schoenberg nor Beethoven was willing to give an official opus number to their first attempts at a string quartet, but Schoenberg's in particular is worthy of note. The composer's earliest large scale work, it gained the approval of no less a figure than Brahms, but was not published during Schoenberg's lifetime. Beethoven's Opus 18, no. 1 saw the composer feeling that he now had 'learnt to write quartets', though the manuscript would be much amended. In Suk's work we see the beginnings of Czech modernism glinting through, past the more traditional leanings of his mentor — and father‐in‐law — Dvořák.

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