{"id":5513,"date":"2010-11-01T16:41:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T23:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=5513"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:33:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:33:02","slug":"grosse-fugue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/01\/grosse-fugue\/","title":{"rendered":"grosse fugue"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Arnica Quartet is going to tackle Beethoven’s Grosse Fugue this season, and I was made aware of two cool youtube clips concerning this greatest and wildest of late Beethoven quartet movements.\u00a0 The first (thanks to Elaine Fine at\u00a0Musical Assumptions<\/a>) is a visual representation of the fugue:<\/p>\n

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The second is a clip from a biopic about Beethoven, with – wait for it – Ed Harris playing Beethoven. It concerns the copying of the fugue with dramatic music, etc.:<\/p>\n

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And finally, the Alban Berg Quartet playing the whole shebang (in two parts, due to YouTube’s length restrictions):
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The Arnica Quartet is going to tackle Beethoven’s Grosse Fugue this season, and I was made aware of two cool youtube clips concerning this greatest and wildest of late Beethoven quartet movements.\u00a0 The first (thanks to Elaine Fine at\u00a0Musical Assumptions) is a visual representation of the fugue: The second is a clip from a biopic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[148,136],"tags":[501,2414,2415,3680],"class_list":["post-5513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciations","category-chamber-music","tag-beethoven","tag-grosse-fugue","tag-op-133","tag-string-quartet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1qV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13142,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/08\/beethoven-the-humorist-or-humorless\/","url_meta":{"origin":5513,"position":0},"title":"beethoven the humorist, or humorless?","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 8, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"You'll get to decide for yourself into which camp Beethoven falls at our upcoming Oregon Symphony concerts this weekend. 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