Hagen Quartett © Andrej Grilc
Hagen Quartett
Sunday
10
November
2024
19:30 – ca. 21:15
Mozart-Saal
Performers
Hagen Quartett
Lukas Hagen, Violine
Rainer Schmidt, Violine
Veronika Hagen, Viola
Clemens Hagen, Violoncello
Programme
Joseph Haydn
Streichquartett G-Dur Hob. III/58 (1788 ca.)
Streichquartett E-Dur Hob. III/59 (1788 ca.)
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Robert Schumann
Streichquartett A-Dur op. 41/3 (1842)
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Zugabe:
Robert Schumann
3. Satz: Adagio (Streichquartett a-moll op. 41/1) (1842)
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Hagen Quartett
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
From Haydn to Schumann
This season, the Hagen Quartet is once again devoting itself to juxtaposing Joseph Haydn's string quartets with significant contributions to the genre by later generations. In his quartets Hob. III/57-62, composed around 1788, Haydn further developed the string quartet genre, of which he is regarded as the founder, with a step towards symphonic elaboration - with larger dimensions, distinctive themes and balanced tempi. In this concert, two of these quartets, the one in G major Hob. III/58 and the rarely performed one in E major Hob. III/59, meet Robert Schumann's Quartet in A major op. 41/3. Before composing his three string quartets op. 41 in 1842, Schumann studied Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn intensively. The references to the classical models are clearly audible in his quartets. Schumann himself was highly satisfied with them. »I still regard them as my best work of the earlier period«, he enthused in 1847.