String Quartets - Volume XI Op. 77 and Op. 103 弦樂四重奏 亨乐版

這是海頓近七十首四重奏作品中的最後一首。海頓原本打算像過去一樣創作一套六首四重奏，但在 1803 年創作這些作品時，海頓的健康狀況非常糟糕，無法完全滿足洛布科維茨王子的委託。因此，他只出版了兩首完整的四重奏，即作品 77。後來，他允許將一部由兩個中間樂章組成的不完整作品作為作品 103 發表，並在版面上加上了預言性的文字： "我的力量消失了，我又老又弱"。然而，從音樂上看，這些四重奏並不孱弱：它們幾乎代表了這位年邁作曲家的巔峰狀態。海頓甚至稱作品 77 第 2 號是他的 "巔峰之作"。海頓甚至稱作品 77 第 2 號是他 "最美的絃樂四重奏""

作曲家: Franz Josef Haydn
校訂者: Horst Walter
樂器: String Quartet
出版社: Henle Urtext Edition

曲目:
Haydn: String Quartets, Volume XI, Lobkowitz-Quartets and last Quartet op. 77 und 103

原文簡介:
These are the last of the nearly seventy quartets in Haydn's oeuvre. Originally he intended to write a set of six quartets, as so often in the past, but at the time they were written, in 1803, Haydn's health was so poor that he could not fully satisfy the commission from Prince Lobkowitz. Instead he published only two complete quartets as op. 77. Later he allowed an incomplete work consisting of two middle movements to appear as op. 103, adding to the print the portentous words: “Gone is all my strength, old and weak am I.” Musically, however, these quartets are anything but weak: they represent the aged composer virtually at the zenith of his powers. Haydn even went so far as to call op. 77, no. 2, his “most beautiful string quartet.”