Towards Beethoven 250 - 3
Sick Genius Reveries
Consone Quartet
Agata Daraskaite violin
Magdalena Loth-Hill violin
Elitsa Bogdanova viola
George Ross violoncello
Onslow / Beethoven
George Onslow, only the second Honorary Fellow of the Philharmonic Society of London (after Mendelssohn), was a prolific French composer of English descent, his first six quartets composed before receiving any formal musical education. Opus 8 was written shortly after commencing tuition in Paris. In all he wrote some seventy-one works alone for string quartet or quintet combination. He was famously quoted as saying "The last quartets of Beethoven are mistakes, absurdities, the reveries of a sick genius....I would burn everything I have composed if I someday wrote anything resembling such chaos". Beethoven’s Opus 135 was the last major work he completed a few months before his death. Finding difficulty to come to terms to write the final movement, where is the inscription, "The difficult resolution”, and later, “Must it be? – It must be, it must be!”, Beethoven wrote, “Here, my dear friend, is my last quartet. It will be the last; and indeed, it has given me much trouble.” After the torments of the previous few quartets, there is only a strange partial resolution from a composer who was probably then well aware of his own mortality.
Saturday 4th December 2021 - 14:30 & 19:00
Tickets £25 includes seat, refreshment, programme sent by email and single entry into raffle
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