A thought about Op.130

[Pastorali]

Karl Holz wrote about Beethovens relation to the 5th movement:

„For Beethoven, the cavatina was was the crown of all quartet movements and his favorite piece. He really composed it with tears of ruefulness. And he admitted to me that is own music had never before made such an impression on him and that simply recalling what he felt while writing it always costs him new tears."

Kind regards
pastorali

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Von Herzen - möge es wieder zu Herzen gehen.
L.v.B.
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[Peter]

Yes and what a moving piece it is - wonderful!

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[Frohlich]

Originally posted by Pastorali:
Karl Holz wrote about Beethovens relation to the 5th movement:

„For Beethoven, the cavatina was was the crown of all quartet movements and his favorite piece. He really composed it with tears of ruefulness. And he admitted to me that is own music had never before made such an impression on him and that simply recalling what he felt while writing it always costs him new tears."

Kind regards
pastorali

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Von Herzen - möge es wieder zu Herzen gehen.
L.v.B.
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Thankyou for that Pastorali,

Indeed the Cavatina was the most concentrated example of Beethoven's lyricism on the instrumental domain.
I find it highly emotional and deeply anguished.
Interestingly, Beethoven later informed Holz that the C-sharp minor quartet,Opus 131, was his greatest.

De Marliave describes the Cavatina in these terms;
The short movement is an agonized treaty, an intolerable longing for happiness and peace, a longing broken with sobs that break from the music with deeper intensity of feeling that even the living voice of the musician could express. It possesses a vital expressive force that increases the melodic significance tenfold. Of actual defined melody there is little; the Cavatina is a continuous unbroken song, an endless melody in which each phrase is shaded into the next....The second principal theme is both more resigned and more impassioned, bringing, it seems, a ray of hope. But the most remarkable passage in the whole movement is contained in the eight bars of episode, from C-flat major to A-flat minor, against the second of which Beethoven has written the expression mark; Beklemmt, (afflicted). The music here reaches an intensity of feeling that transcends all the agony of grief, all the depths of anguish, that human grief could experience.

[Joy]

Originally posted by Frohlich:


De Marliave describes the Cavatina in these terms;
The short movement is an agonized treaty, an intolerable longing for happiness and peace, a longing broken with sobs that break from the music with deeper intensity of feeling that even the living voice of the musician could express. It possesses a vital expressive force that increases the melodic significance tenfold. Of actual defined melody there is little; the Cavatina is a continuous unbroken song, an endless melody in which each phrase is shaded into the next....The second principal theme is both more resigned and more impassioned, bringing, it seems, a ray of hope. But the most remarkable passage in the whole movement is contained in the eight bars of episode, from C-flat major to A-flat minor, against the second of which Beethoven has written the expression mark; Beklemmt, (afflicted). The music here reaches an intensity of feeling that transcends all the agony of grief, all the depths of anguish, that human grief could experience.

Excellent description. A most wonderful piece indeed!


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