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Haydn: String Quartets Book IV, Op. 20

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  • Composer: Joseph Haydn
  • Editor: Georg Feder
  • Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
  • Publisher Code: HN208
  • Instrumentation: 2 Violins, Viola, Violoncello
  • Format: Chamber Parts
  • Binding: Softcover
  • Pages: 152

The preface by Christin Heitmann provides illuminating background information. Haydn did not assign the nickname "Sun Quartets": it alludes to an edition of the time, in which the title page was decorated with a rising sun. The Quartets op. 20 are the last series in a group of earlier string quartets, but are clearly ahead of their time. The demanding fugues which close three of the six quartets are a particular structural feature. The study edition HN 9208 complements the parts of the String Quartets op. 20.