Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet No. 14, Op. 131

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  • - Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (17 December 1770 -- 26 March 1827)
    - Performers: Takács Quartet
    - Year of recording: 2003
    String Quartet No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 131, written in 1826.
    00:00 - 1. Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo
    08:03 - 2. Allegro molto vivace
    11:00 - 3. Allegro moderato
    11:43 - 4. Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile
    25:10 - 5. Presto
    30:12 - 6. Adagio quasi un poco andante
    32:30 - 7. Allegro
    Despite its opus number, this quartet came after the "Fifteenth" Op. 132 from 1825, one of three composed to meet a commission from Prince Nikolai Golitzin. The others were Nos. 12 and 13. Like the Thirteenth and Fifteenth, this C sharp minor Quartet consists of more than the usual three or four movements. There are, in fact, seven movements to this massive work, and its form, as one might suspect, is also most unusual.
    - The quartet begins with a fugue, marked Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo. The mood throughout is somber, but with a religiosity and tenderness that seem to suggest the composer's sense of his own mortality (Beethoven died in March 1827, a year after this composition). Near the end of this movement the music fades, then leads directly into...
    - the second movement, marked Allegro molto vivace, which seems as if it could be a more typical first movement. It begins at a pianissimo level with a theme that might seem more suited to a Rondo finale. A transitional theme appears next, and eventually we arrive at a second subject. The material is reprised but afterward there follows no actual development section. Instead, an expanded coda develops the transitional theme. At this juncture, the traditional sonata-allegro form seems obscured.
    - The third movement begins without pause, and actually serves as a brief interlude to...
    - the long slow movement, which is marked Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile. It consists of a theme and six variations, most of which involve harmony rather than the essence of the melody itself. This movement is one of the most profound and complex Beethoven ever fashioned in the chamber genre. Each variation is played in a different tempo, thus creating a true "variety" that, to some ears, may seem at first to impart a disjointed quality. Yet, Beethoven's invention and cleverness are present everywhere. The fifth variation, for instance, with its deftly-wrought syncopation, is wonderfully mysterious and the coda slyly starts off as if it will become yet another variation, but it subtly returns to the main themes, then brings the movement to a close with a gentle fade.
    - The Presto fifth movement is brimming with energy and charm. It is an attractive, humorous Scherzo with a trio section and may be, despite a few innovative touches by Beethoven, the most traditional of the movements comprising this quartet. Its rather abrupt and harsh ending leads to a brief interlude-like Adagio quasi un poco andante.
    - The sixth movement, like the third, is very brief.
    - The finale begins with a gruff theme, that is immediately followed by a less fierce but darker theme. A third melody is introduced shortly afterward, closer in character to the last, but expressing sadness and melancholy. The themes reappear, with the form thus far seeming to suggest the movement could be a Rondo. But Beethoven veers toward thematic development, as if to say he has finally found his way to the sonata-allegro form. There follows a recapitulation but with many highly imaginative changes in the previous material. A powerful and tragic coda closes what many consider Beethoven's greatest quartet.
    It was first published in Mainz in 1827 and was dedicated to Baron Joseph von Stutterheim.
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Komentáře • 919

  • @ryanchiang2509
    @ryanchiang2509 Před rokem +112

    Five days before Schubert's death, his friend the violinist Karl Holz and his string quartet visited to play for him. The last musical work he had wished to hear was Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131; Holz commented: "The King of Harmony has sent the King of Song a friendly bidding to the crossing".

    • @nazazaku
      @nazazaku Před 11 měsíci +20

      Schubert, after hearing the quartet, said : "After this, what is left for us to write?".

    • @creativestudio8329
      @creativestudio8329 Před 4 měsíci +2

      It sure is a friendly bidding to the crossing, swords, horses and all. An almost desperate breath of riding the black horse towards styx.

    • @loganfruchtman953
      @loganfruchtman953 Před 4 měsíci +4

      Karl Holz also was a friend was of Beethoven as he was the original violinist who first performed this quartet in 1826.

  • @phillipdutton4527
    @phillipdutton4527 Před 11 měsíci +51

    I am just so glad that out of the billions of planets in the galaxy, I live on the same one that was once blessed by Bach and Beethoven

  • @pierfrancescopeperoni
    @pierfrancescopeperoni Před 6 lety +1113

    "After this, what is left for us to write?"-Franz Schubert

    • @ob4161
      @ob4161 Před 5 lety +18

      Nothing

    • @calebhu6383
      @calebhu6383 Před 5 lety +152

      The fact that Schubert- composer of some of the greatest string quartets of all time- said this, really is something.

    • @beng7716
      @beng7716 Před 5 lety +74

      @@calebhu6383 Well I consider Shubert's 14th string quartet (death and the maiden), just as good as this quartet so he must of really loved Beethoven.

    • @calebhu6383
      @calebhu6383 Před 5 lety +43

      @@beng7716 I was the first violin for the Schubert 14 in many a state competition. Gorgeous piece, I won't disagree with your notion that it's Beethoven level or higher.

    • @andrewwiemken6443
      @andrewwiemken6443 Před 5 lety +33

      Turns out the answer to this was Winterreise, the String Quintet, and the last three Piano Sonatas, but Schubert would have brushed it off.

  • @janicewolk851
    @janicewolk851 Před 2 lety +204

    I first listened to this music on a beach in Mexico with my husband who truly loved music. One immediately hears genius. My husband has been dead for 18 years now, but this brings him alive again for me. Thank you.

    • @Ireallylikepuppies
      @Ireallylikepuppies Před 4 měsíci

      😢 such a beautiful way to remember your love. Hope youre doing well❤

  • @pierfrancescopeperoni
    @pierfrancescopeperoni Před 6 lety +753

    I don't know what Beethoven wants to say with this, but I just agree.

    • @torrentialrage
      @torrentialrage Před 5 lety +18

      I think this was inspired by his teenage nephew. Classical Classroom did an episode on this recently.

    • @alessandrocampina9464
      @alessandrocampina9464 Před 5 lety +27

      Man , if you already know that the person who created this piece wanted to say something, you are very well in the understanding of classical music, especially when it was created by a genius haha

    • @elie2133
      @elie2133 Před 5 lety +7

      @@alessandrocampina9464 I agree! though understanding the message with programatic music is VERY HARD like how the HELL hard it is holala well anyway it's hard!!

    • @kreipflagra3116
      @kreipflagra3116 Před 4 lety +14

      You agree because he doesn't say anything. His music doesn't say anything, but yet you are informed of things you didn't even know you could feel

    • @elie2133
      @elie2133 Před 4 lety +5

      @@kreipflagra3116 what? I mean, it's hard to conceptualize, I agree. beethoven talks through his music. He shares messages, stories and feelings. It's called(having messages and things like that in music without lyrics) programmatic music.

  • @samaritan29
    @samaritan29 Před 4 lety +111

    in trying times like this..the best thing to do is forget it all and listen to beethoven.

    • @steveegallo3384
      @steveegallo3384 Před 4 lety +4

      Hear hear! Defense Rests! The Motion CARRIES! Bravo from San Agustinillo!

    • @dmfitzsim
      @dmfitzsim Před 3 lety

      most definitely

    • @lifeloveandliteraturejoyeu7967
      @lifeloveandliteraturejoyeu7967 Před 3 lety

      💯💯💯👍 The only valid thought is the one that transcends thought. Been listening to these sublime string quartets for over twenty years. They are the only things that have never failed me. But always uplifted and inspired.

    • @dosterix6034
      @dosterix6034 Před 4 měsíci +1

      This is still true in 2024.

  • @josephsummer777
    @josephsummer777 Před 5 lety +118

    I listen to the c# minor about 50 times a year, not counting the times I play it in my head. This is - to me - the pinnacle of artistic creation.

    • @kofiLjunggren
      @kofiLjunggren Před rokem +1

      Yup, I guesst that your first time listening and you latest time listening to this piece was quite an quite different experience, this is my first time listening!

    • @josephsummer777
      @josephsummer777 Před rokem

      @@kofiLjunggren I still recall the first time hearing c# 4tet. I was shocked and thrilled. It took me decades of listening before I felt I could write my first 4tet, in which I twice quoted c#.

    • @specialperson335
      @specialperson335 Před rokem +3

      @@kofiLjunggren the first listen rarely gives you much, depending a bit on the age of the piece i usually enjoy a piece the most around the 5th listening time

  • @mcrettable
    @mcrettable Před 5 lety +248

    Some things in this world are actually perfect...

    • @objectivitycave11
      @objectivitycave11 Před 4 lety +8

      Why does this end then?

    • @stenarsk6877
      @stenarsk6877 Před 4 lety +19

      @@objectivitycave11 with perfect ending? of course it had to

    • @rubeng9092
      @rubeng9092 Před 3 lety +9

      So it can begin anew...

    • @darrylschultz6479
      @darrylschultz6479 Před 3 lety +1

      Concentrate on the music and leave me out of it okay...

    • @DPCR00
      @DPCR00 Před 3 lety

      Especially 26:15 :)
      26:40 :) sublime
      26:50 :) thought we going somewhere exciting, but we had to come back 27:50

  • @TrudyConway
    @TrudyConway Před 4 lety +69

    Goes to show that you don't have to understand anything else about music except how it makes you feel. This one made me bawl like a baby.

  • @MusicalBasics
    @MusicalBasics Před 5 lety +241

    When I listen to this piece, I just can't help but be completely speechless in awe of the sheer divine beauty. Every note, every melody, every harmony, they tell a story that no one can ever comprehend, but somehow, we can feel its emotions. Works like these is why Beethoven has been and will always be the greatest composer to me.

  • @manfredmeier4775
    @manfredmeier4775 Před 8 lety +459

    32:30 like "Hi My Name is Beethoven"

    • @johannsebastianbach7920
      @johannsebastianbach7920 Před 7 lety +17

      manfred meier yes

    • @brianbernstein3826
      @brianbernstein3826 Před 6 lety +28

      according to "Records of Vienna" and corresponding research, Beethoven intended these lyrics for this seventh and final movement. the original manuscript show ink marks corresponding to various emoticons, but the decision was ultimately overruled by the publisher, who felt the European public may view it as unpatriotic considering the revolt in the German army during the mid 1850s.

    • @adriatorras8077
      @adriatorras8077 Před 6 lety +12

      what what??? Beethoven wrote "hi my name is beethoven :)" in the last movement? can yougive me some link?

    • @alyssacarruthers1679
      @alyssacarruthers1679 Před 6 lety +1

      manfred meier you suck

    • @alexandreviol
      @alexandreviol Před 6 lety +2

      manfred meier up in your ass man. There's nothing like this in the original score. Only your imaginations.

  • @theodentherenewed4785
    @theodentherenewed4785 Před 3 lety +39

    The final movement is fabulous. The opening's Beethoven's signature big punch, followed by a dramatic melody, then developed further, while Beethoven is the ultimate master of thematic development.

  • @JamesDaSilvamusic
    @JamesDaSilvamusic Před 5 lety +37

    6:35 Can't get over that cadence. Devastating.

    • @herrbrahms
      @herrbrahms Před 4 lety +6

      There's a reason why. Look at the cello line from bars 100-106 and see if you recognize it from elsewhere in the movement. You don't really hear it unless you're looking for it, but it's still there, working on you subconsciously.

  • @philipestrin4381
    @philipestrin4381 Před 6 lety +173

    This is not only the greatest of all string quartets: it is also, indisputably to me, the greatest piece of music ever written. But even more so: it is one of the greatest achievements of the mind, heart and spirit of Man. Few, whether in the arts or sciences, or any other field of endeavor,, have reached the Olympian heights that Beethoven did in his 14th String Quartet.

    • @Dan474834
      @Dan474834 Před 6 lety +32

      Well isn’t that controversial...

    • @mcrettable
      @mcrettable Před 5 lety +29

      That's quite the claim haha.

    • @mcrettable
      @mcrettable Před 5 lety +13

      Greatest of all string quartets. hmm... I would have to say the 13th wins with the Grosse Fugue. The 14th is easily second, though.

    • @ketanfernandes4094
      @ketanfernandes4094 Před 5 lety +16

      Personally I would say Beethoven’s greatest works (in no order):
      1. Hammerklavier sonata (the third movement is my personal favorite!)
      2. Symphonies 3, 5, 6, and 9
      3. Emperor Concerto
      4. Moonlight Sonata
      5. Große Fuge (also the most underrated of his works)
      6. String Quartet 14
      7. Pathetique sonata movement 2
      8. Missa Solemnis
      9. Piano Sonata 32

    • @eduardoguerraavila8329
      @eduardoguerraavila8329 Před 4 lety +2

      Absolutely in agreement with you.

  • @johnphillips5993
    @johnphillips5993 Před rokem +21

    33:47-34:23 this part... it’s like you hear all the struggles of Beethoven’s life expressed at once

  • @willhk4809
    @willhk4809 Před 3 lety +131

    The first movement is just indescribable. The most profound piece of music ever written.

    • @IvanIvanov-rp8ic
      @IvanIvanov-rp8ic Před 3 lety +55

      How many times have I read exactly the same words under all manner of classical pieces....

    • @robb6560
      @robb6560 Před 3 lety +10

      @@IvanIvanov-rp8ic yeah... But in Beethoven there's more impact than the others, for me at last.

    • @Igneous01
      @Igneous01 Před 3 lety +3

      @@robb6560 I was the same way when I first discovered this. I promise there is much more out there. If you're into monumental works check out Godowsky's Passacaglia and Fugue, or Max Reger's Variations and Fugue on a theme by Bach.

    • @robb6560
      @robb6560 Před 3 lety +3

      @@Igneous01 Thank you, I don't consider this piece the most profound even if it's very special, but the Ninth Symphony... That is ahead of his time, even more than our!

    • @wastrel09
      @wastrel09 Před 3 lety

      @Will HK--you couldn't be more wrong. You wanna hear profound, listen to this: czcams.com/video/mawt4YKNWQs/video.html

  • @garryob9279
    @garryob9279 Před 2 lety +21

    From reading some of the comments, I see some are highlighting their favourite section. For me, 19:46 is probably, if I seriously had to pick a favorite piece from any genre of music, is the most stunning thing I've ever heard. I can't help it, I have tears in my eyes whilst I'm typing. For anyone still reading, I really do hope you find peace and happiness in this life.

  • @epotter397
    @epotter397 Před 8 lety +54

    the sixth movement is just so heavy and beautiful

    • @gcham
      @gcham Před 5 lety

      Ive fallen in love with it

    • @richardm3421
      @richardm3421 Před 4 lety +5

      ...and builds so much tension for the seventh, teasing its arrival multiple times!

    • @tobinbaker383
      @tobinbaker383 Před 4 lety +2

      It reminds me of the Kol Nidre...

    • @johnphillips5993
      @johnphillips5993 Před 3 lety

      I believe you're thinking of the 1st movement as well

  • @Trouble_Klef
    @Trouble_Klef Před 3 lety +40

    I would be enjoying this work more if my History exam didn't exist.

    • @ferrer65
      @ferrer65 Před 3 lety +4

      Music like this helped me with my algebra homework in college I always felt it woke my brain up.

  • @remon563
    @remon563 Před 8 lety +92

    one of Beethoven's towering works. Mesmerizing counterpoint and fugal writing at its highest point. Nothing but respect.

  • @TheSteveBerlin
    @TheSteveBerlin Před 6 lety +129

    This is profound music. What a genius LvB was to be able to capture his moods so brilliantly, in every possible musical way. A most complicated, wrenching, sustained essay, one of the masterpieces of human creativity. We are the richer as a species for LvB's genius. Because he reminds us that life is good. And peace is good. Thank you for posting this version, with the score. The Takacs Quartet is one fine ensemble.

    • @tvonmove
      @tvonmove Před 6 lety +4

      Very well put

    • @steveegallo3384
      @steveegallo3384 Před 4 lety +2

      @D-o -- True...but I believe we should acknowledge a high coëfficient of Torment....yes, Wrenching, as Berlin remarked. Greetings from México!

    • @katrinat.3032
      @katrinat.3032 Před 3 lety +1

      The only thing I somewhat disagree with is the Tackas quartet is a fine ensemble. They are superb and rendered such a beautiful execution. Thanks for listening 😉

    • @TheSteveBerlin
      @TheSteveBerlin Před 3 lety

      I am not a string player, thus cannot really see the difference between fine and superb :-). But this is a peak experience for the soul, and for the New Year. Thank you, again, for posting this endlessly meaningful work. Truly one of the supreme works of art.

    • @emanuel_soundtrack
      @emanuel_soundtrack Před rokem +1

      His moods: the minor and major mode.

  • @maryannam.6288
    @maryannam.6288 Před 7 lety +60

    Beethoven is one of my favorite music artist ever

  • @alien5270
    @alien5270 Před rokem +14

    My absolute favorite of Beethoven's are the strings works, as much as I adore all his music. He unleashes these tidal waves of brilliance out of the grips of musical conformity in this early years, and in later years becomes philosophical and introspective, transcendent. The music almosts writes itself and you forget there's an author because it's so original and overwhelmingly profound. What a blessing to humankind.

  • @sylvainpenard9354
    @sylvainpenard9354 Před 2 lety +21

    00:00 - 1. Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo
    03:23 : thème en diminution
    06:25 : Thème en augmentation (violoncelle)
    07:38 : Transition (octaves)
    08:03 - 2. Allegro molto vivace
    11:00 - 3. Allegro moderato
    11:43 - 4. Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile
    14:15 : Première variation
    15:14 : Deuxième variation
    16:04 : Troisième variation (fugato)
    16:55 : Quatrième variation (Adagio - notez présence des pizz)
    19:01 : Cinquième variation (Allegretto)
    19:48 : Sixième variation (Adagio)
    23:34 : Septième variation (Allegretto)
    25:10 - 5. Presto
    26:14 : Trio
    29:37 : fin et transition
    30:12 - 6. Adagio quasi un poco andante
    32:30 - 7. Allegro
    33:20 : second thème (mi majeur)
    33:46 : Développement
    35:05 : Réexposition
    35:52 : Second thème (ré majeur !)
    36:44 : Coda
    38:20 : Cadence plagale

  • @colinmurphy2214
    @colinmurphy2214 Před 7 lety +61

    The 7th movement is pure genius! An absolutely amazing feat of composing.

  • @alvarito45
    @alvarito45 Před 3 lety +47

    Beethoven seems to have jumped 50 years to the future when he composed this string quartet. It isn't of his time... absolutely!!

    • @zenmaster16
      @zenmaster16 Před 3 lety +18

      I’d argue that all of Late Beethoven’s works are further advanced than anything that has ever been composed. The Romantics built off of only one aspect of his body of works and no one since has been able to rival his late string quartets. I think that he had seen further along in the evolution of music than we have even reached yet.

    • @eduardoguerraavila8329
      @eduardoguerraavila8329 Před 3 lety +9

      ¿50 years?
      This could be easily music from XXI Century.
      An ageless infinite masterpiece.

    • @willhk4809
      @willhk4809 Před 3 lety +3

      @@zenmaster16 100% agree. Late Beethoven is sui generis. On another planet to later composers.

    • @vadim4252
      @vadim4252 Před 3 lety +6

      @@zenmaster16 I'd argue that you havent listened to Shostakovichs stringquartets.

    • @zenmaster16
      @zenmaster16 Před 3 lety +5

      @@vadim4252 actually, very solid point. I love Shostakovich but for some reason I never really group him in my mind with other composers. His music is amazingly different than any other composer I’ve ever listened to.

  • @aidengregg
    @aidengregg Před 4 lety +17

    That chill you get, when you find string quartets hard to get into, but the recognition of the sheer genius of one starts to dawn upon you ...

  • @joshuadellinger8279
    @joshuadellinger8279 Před 2 lety +9

    6:27-7:03 Man, the despair in the 1st violin and then the viola in this part really gets to me

  • @benrow5472
    @benrow5472 Před 7 lety +299

    this is the last song Franz Schubert listened to before he died.

    • @fredhoupt4078
      @fredhoupt4078 Před 6 lety +75

      Song? I forgive you. Just use the word "music" and all will be good. What is your source for that anecdote?

    • @goodhygieneadvice1478
      @goodhygieneadvice1478 Před 6 lety +57

      Fred houpt is right, a "song" has voices in it. But nonetheless, I think you are right. If it was not the last, it was certainly one of the last. Five days before his death, Schubert listened to this quartet, and afterwards, he is said to have remarked "after this, what is left for us to write?"

    • @fredhoupt4078
      @fredhoupt4078 Před 6 lety +11

      Even the definition of a song having a voice and I suppose words with it, is a problematic answer. Consider the many outstanding "songs without words" from Felix Mendelssohn. As for Schubert hearing this music before he died, it is quite possible, though I don't know a reliable source for that claim. Schubert's supposed quote is quite moving, if he really said this. I read a quote attributed to a young Beethoven who had heard some piece of Mozart, maybe chamber music, I can't recall. Anyway, Beethoven made a similar type of remark, which was about the awe he felt for that particular music. Beethoven, as it turns out, admired Handel over all previous composers. This particular Quartet, is one of my favourites.

    • @blooeagle5118
      @blooeagle5118 Před 6 lety +4

      fred houpt Pink Floyd's "Any Color you Like" is considered a song, and has no vocals.

    • @tvonmove
      @tvonmove Před 6 lety +5

      It was. He described listening to it as paradise on earth

  • @ban9nas177
    @ban9nas177 Před 2 lety +26

    The most profound piece of music ever conceived along with the 3rd Mov of the great Hammerklavier.

    • @c0ntemporist
      @c0ntemporist Před 2 lety +7

      What about the Grosse Fuge?

    • @remon563
      @remon563 Před rokem +1

      It is like the master finally let go of any outward expectations and became free

    • @ban9nas177
      @ban9nas177 Před rokem +1

      ​@@c0ntemporist I wouldn't label the Grosse Fuge is as "profound", but it is certainly the most radical thing he ever wrote. When I say "profound" I mean that the music reaches a spiritual depth that plunges to the innermost depths of the soul, it is where we truly realize that what we are listening to is something beyond ourselves, beyond humanity, and, in which, upon listening, we understand most of all that what we are hearing is an outpouring of a man's soul. Many pieces fit this very description, music is very subjective after all lol. For me its the Hammerklavier, this quartet, and Mahlers 2nd symphony (the ending). I hope you understand what I mean :)

    • @c0ntemporist
      @c0ntemporist Před rokem +1

      @@ban9nas177 I totally agree with you and yeah i could see it as a more radical piece than profound.

    • @chrismcdonald9120
      @chrismcdonald9120 Před 6 měsíci

      In my opinion, Beethoven's 9th symphony and Tchaikovsky's 6th symphony are the most profound, at least from what I've listened to

  • @florriemccarthy2457
    @florriemccarthy2457 Před 2 lety +7

    This was what Beethoven regarded as his "most perfect, single work".

  • @bag3lmonst3r72
    @bag3lmonst3r72 Před 3 lety +42

    Consider the fact that when Beethoven wrote this masterpiece, he had been deaf as a brick for some 10 years.

    • @dudel39
      @dudel39 Před 3 lety +5

      no dont consider that, because its factually wrong. Beethoven still had just a little bit of hearing left even in his final years.

    • @clark6050
      @clark6050 Před 3 lety +2

      While it doesn't take away from the beauty of this piece, Beethoven could actually hear his piano just fine. He used a method called "bone conducting" he would stick a metal bar to his piano and bite down on it. The sound resonated through the bar and he could hear the notes just like we hear them now.

    • @Vingul
      @Vingul Před 3 lety +12

      @@clark6050 yep, just like we hear it, through our teeth.
      ;-)

    • @clark6050
      @clark6050 Před 3 lety

      @@Vingul he still heard it through his ears, the sound just reverberated through his teeth. You can only use bone conducting if your ear drums still work.

    • @Vingul
      @Vingul Před 3 lety

      @@clark6050 cool, I understand. I still doubt he heard it quite in the same way that we do, but I was just being snide of course.

  • @pedroa.cantero9449
    @pedroa.cantero9449 Před 7 lety +161

    Me asombra la capacidad de Beethoven para renovar su música obra tras obra, a modo de esos manantiales míticos cuyas aguas se crecen a cada luna. Pareciese que la sordera le obligara a escuchar cuanto manase de su interior y en él encontrara nuevas formas, temas y fuerza expresiva. Algo tanto más evidente en los últimos cuartetos para cuerdas, que asevera lo que anotó Adorno: « la verdadera razón de la grandeza de Beethoven es que no solo creó buenas piezas una tras otra, sino que produjo sin cesar nuevos tipos, nuevas categorías de música ». Esta en particular, cuya monumentalidad aturde, él mismo la estimó sobremanera y, sin duda, es la obra más ambiciosa de cuantas intentara. Muchos fueron quienes admiraron su magnitud y “perfección”. Schubert la consideró insuperable: “¿Qué nos resta por escribir después de esto?”; de ahí que, poco antes de morir, sus compañeros se la tocaran . En cuanto a Wagner, le dedicaría un ensayo ponderando su grandeza épica. Sus siete movimientos, interpretados sin pausa, a modo de arquitectura titánica, desde la fuga inicial en “adagio molto espressivo” hasta el deslumbrante allegro final, transmiten un sentimiento de unidad que embarga el ánimo, tal es la fuerza irresistible que emana del conjunto. Vigor del que he sido agraciado en algún momento que el recogimiento lo propiciara. Recuerdo especialmente una mañana en la isla Floreana, de amanecida, tras una visión espectral. Sentí la necesidad imperiosa de escuchar este cuarteto mientras el sol ofrecía un resplandor insólito. En los años que llevaba asomándome a la bahía fue la primera vez que esa resurgencia propia del ocaso anunciaba el alba. Pero lo más extraño ocurrió cuando según los diversos movimientos musicales, el océano se disolvía en los compases, como si él mismo lo entendiera, arrobándome aquel diálogo como dicen ocurría a locos divinos al sentirse ajustados al Todo. Un solo ser allí revelado.

    • @pablocatalaquintas2656
      @pablocatalaquintas2656 Před 6 lety +1

      usted sabe cómo mezclar los enteógenos con Ludovico

    • @Ivan_1791
      @Ivan_1791 Před 5 lety +10

      Eres todo un poeta la verdad. Siempre disfruto tus comentarios en los vídeos de música clásica.

    • @pedroa.cantero9449
      @pedroa.cantero9449 Před 5 lety +3

      @@Ivan_1791 Gracias Alex. ¡Ya quisiera yo ser un poeta!

    • @agseu3668
      @agseu3668 Před 3 lety

      Muito bem, Pedro, se eu percebi o teu castelhano, a tua prosa combina bem com o Opus 131, porque tens alguma coisa de poeta, como poeta foi Beethoven, e eu também por o ouvir desde sempre com absoluta alegria e agora por te ler.

    • @Trombosilbo
      @Trombosilbo Před 3 lety +4

      Resumen: la canción es muy bonita

  • @vigokovacic3488
    @vigokovacic3488 Před 4 lety +12

    This is by far one of if not the most inspiring string quartet in existance

  • @davidrehak3539
    @davidrehak3539 Před 6 lety +142

    Ludwig van Beethoven:14.cisz-moll Vonósnégyes Op.131
    1.Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo 00:05
    2.Allegro molto vivace 08:03
    3.Allegro moderato - Adagio 11:00
    4.Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile - Più mosso - Andante moderato e lusinghiero - Adagio - Allegretto - Adagio, ma non troppo e semplice - Allegretto 11:43
    5. Presto 25:10
    6.Adagio quasi un poco andante 30:12
    7.Allegro 32:30
    Takács Vonósnégyes

  • @tomwilde5090
    @tomwilde5090 Před rokem +16

    This is my favorite piece by Beethoven. Completely deaf and so amazing.

  • @joshuasussman4020
    @joshuasussman4020 Před 3 lety +5

    For a few years in my teens I listened to the late quartets nearly non-stop. In them, Beethoven reaches deeper and further into the future than any other music does. Thankfully, I have heard the quartets of the other great masters of chamber writing, and nothing even remotely approaches these.
    In this particular quartet, the spiritual probity is so acute and prophetic, it reaches the extreme outer limits of human imagination, experience and religion. It is a stupefying, humbling experience.

  • @aidanrogers4438
    @aidanrogers4438 Před 2 lety +10

    30:12
    Liebgott: ‘All you need’s a little Mozart.’
    Nixon: ‘Beethoven.’
    Liebgott: ‘Sorry, sir?’
    Nixon: ‘That’s not Mozart. That’s Beethoven.’

    • @paulsjovold1691
      @paulsjovold1691 Před rokem +2

      This string quartet sums up the mood of that episode

    • @BigBoiLoses
      @BigBoiLoses Před rokem

      Probably the best episode of the series.

    • @filizyuksel5771
      @filizyuksel5771 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@BigBoiLoseswhat series is this from?

    • @BigBoiLoses
      @BigBoiLoses Před 2 měsíci

      @@filizyuksel5771 A WWII miniseries that aired on HBO called Band of Brothers. It’s about the actions of the American 101st airborne division during the second half of WWII.

    • @filizyuksel5771
      @filizyuksel5771 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@BigBoiLoses thank you!

  • @TheodoreServin
    @TheodoreServin Před 6 lety +14

    I know it's only 28 measures long, but the sixth movement gets me every time. It's just so sad and beautiful. I love the rest quartet as well, but that movement just is so special. Thank you for posting this, olla-vogala!

  • @nopedx
    @nopedx Před 8 lety +21

    5 stars to olla-vogala for putting this most remarkable piece of music and visual representation together for us. Schubert asked to listen to this days before his impending death. The visual aspect (displaying wonderful counterpoint) alone deserves highest honors. Cheers!

  • @Johannludwigamadeus
    @Johannludwigamadeus Před 7 lety +61

    Whenever I feel I should finish my life I listen to one of the last string quartetes or one of the last sonatas.

    • @antoniosilva7083
      @antoniosilva7083 Před 7 lety +3

      Grande, enorme, transcendente - e apesar disso humano, humaníssimo!

    • @Nick-zh3ws
      @Nick-zh3ws Před 4 lety +4

      So did Schubert...

    • @tobinbaker383
      @tobinbaker383 Před 4 lety +1

      same

    • @Ivan_1791
      @Ivan_1791 Před 3 lety +2

      Keep doing that.

    • @theodentherenewed4785
      @theodentherenewed4785 Před 3 lety +2

      I always keep the belief that there's more to discover. Just keep trying out new musical pieces and the moments of brilliance in music will eventually come.

  • @Antifogasta
    @Antifogasta Před 7 lety +43

    i started listening and thinking about the complexities of playing this and by bar 75 I'm fighting back tears for some reason. I have no idea why i have this lump in my throat.

    • @sebastientraglia1351
      @sebastientraglia1351 Před 7 lety +10

      Antifogasta
      because the first movement is a terribly moving and strong piece of music. I feel the resignment of a genius in front of suffering and incoming death. Such pathos, amazing.

    • @sebastientraglia1351
      @sebastientraglia1351 Před 7 lety +5

      And finally death knocks on the door at the opening notes of the last movement.

    • @mandodnam
      @mandodnam Před 7 lety +1

      Wow, this is right in the feels.

    • @martinweiss3054
      @martinweiss3054 Před 7 lety

      Antifogasta Because it's gorgeous!

    • @fredhoupt4078
      @fredhoupt4078 Před 6 lety +1

      Your physical/emotional response is correct, no matter what it is. Your emotions are being stirred by what Beethoven was feeling. You can attach lots of words to it, like being alone, depression, sadness, etc. The thing with Beethoven, is that for him it was all very personal. With JS Bach, he suppresses his personal self in favour of the idea he is creating in musical notes. Beethoven (and of course Schubert and Brahms) provide musical vibrations for our deepest feelings.

  • @mojeo522
    @mojeo522 Před 4 lety +27

    Beethoven himself never heard this in his life...

    • @theyeking7023
      @theyeking7023 Před 3 lety +1

      I can't think of anything sadder

    • @michaellindsay1579
      @michaellindsay1579 Před 2 lety +2

      That fact never ceases to amaze me. Unfathomable musical genius- can’t wrap my brain around it…

  • @ieyeshiabates3556
    @ieyeshiabates3556 Před 3 lety +4

    For someone who just started making instrumental music, I appreciate and fully grasp the beauty, the difficulty, and the emotional balance of this.

  • @trappaskunk
    @trappaskunk Před 3 lety +4

    Hard to imagine a more beautifully wrought work than this.

  • @futuropasado
    @futuropasado Před 7 lety +5

    The Adagio ma non troppo is crushing, one of the most beutiful pieces ever.

  • @clairewonderfullife8819
    @clairewonderfullife8819 Před rokem +4

    This is just absolutely stunning. Beethoven's music touch our souls in an indescribable emotional way. The Takacs Quartet performed this masterpiece beautifully. Thank You!

  • @enescebesoy5593
    @enescebesoy5593 Před 3 lety +10

    "Beethoven"
    -Sorry sir?
    "That's not Mozart, that's Beethoven"

    • @BigBoiLoses
      @BigBoiLoses Před rokem +1

      “Hitler’s dead,”
      -Holy shit…
      “he shot himself in Berlin.”

  • @SidLaw500
    @SidLaw500 Před 3 lety +3

    Thanks for this post! Wonderful performance!

  • @HenJack-vl5cb
    @HenJack-vl5cb Před 4 lety +3

    Wonderful recording. Much appreciated the score applied.Thank you!!!!!!

  • @johnphillips5993
    @johnphillips5993 Před 3 lety +4

    Nothing can describe just how incredible this work is.

  • @centrostudicarrara6264
    @centrostudicarrara6264 Před 4 lety +7

    Just a translation from spanish of Mr. Cantero (see below). I am amazed at Beethoven's ability to renew his music work after work, like those mythical springs whose waters grow with each moon. It seems that deafness forces him to listen to everything flowing from within him and in him he will find new forms, themes and expressive force. Something so much more evident in the last string quartets, which affirms what Adorno noted: «the true reason for Beethoven's greatness is that he not only created good pieces one after another, but he constantly produced new types, new categories of music ». This one in particular, whose monumentality stuns, he himself highly esteemed it and, without a doubt, is the most ambitious work of all he tried. Many were the ones who admired its magnitude and "perfection". Schubert considered it insurmountable: "What remains for us to write after this?"; hence, shortly before she died, her companions touched her. As for Wagner, he would dedicate an essay pondering his epic greatness. His seven movements, interpreted without pause, as a titanic architecture, from the initial escape in "adagio molto espressivo" to the dazzling final allegro, convey a feeling of unity that overwhelms the spirit, such is the irresistible force that emanates from the whole. Vigor of which I have been graceful at some point that the recollection caused it. I especially remember one morning on the Floreana island, at dawn, after a spectral vision. I felt an urgent need to listen to this quartet while the sun offered an unusual glow. In the years that I had been looking out to the bay, it was the first time that this resurgence of sunset announced dawn. But the strangest thing happened when, according to the various musical movements, the ocean dissolved in the bars, as if he understood it himself, robbing me of that dialogue as they say happened to divine madmen when feeling adjusted to the All. A single being revealed there.

  • @justrandomgurlxd990
    @justrandomgurlxd990 Před rokem +4

    This is a beautiful piece! I fell in love!

  • @pierpaoloricci5464
    @pierpaoloricci5464 Před rokem +3

    I'm so happy to hear this beautiful quartet that was so important to me, performed by a great string quartet that I didn't know before. I am also happy to read the comments of those who have listened to it before me which make me feel close to them as in a large family

  • @kimura3033
    @kimura3033 Před 5 lety +5

    From 5th, to 6th, then to the 7th movement, my gosh, breathtaking.

  • @LanceClark
    @LanceClark Před 4 lety +9

    I really enjoyed the Presto the most. The build up of tension from those intermittent fermatas and the eventual release that followed felt real good.

  • @thefxbip315
    @thefxbip315 Před 3 lety +5

    Aggressive and devastatingly powerful interpretation of last movement.

  • @mox9076
    @mox9076 Před 3 lety +6

    Hands down. One of the top 10 string quartets ever. It made made me want to play thr violin.

    • @CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji
      @CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji Před 2 lety +1

      Definitely; Beethoven's 14th and the 15th (Heiliger Dankgesang), and Schubert's 13th (Rosamunde) and 14th (Death and the Maiden)- are the best string quartets of the classical era (I mean only the classical period, there are a lot of quartets that are as good as these even after the classical period). This is just my opinion, mind you.

    • @mox9076
      @mox9076 Před 2 lety

      @aaron singer Yes I play now. I heard a recording when I was a kid and fell in love.

    • @mox9076
      @mox9076 Před 2 lety

      @@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji this one has a special place in my heart.

    • @mox9076
      @mox9076 Před 2 lety

      @@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji and though not a quartet. I have fondness for Vivaldi's Lestro Armonico Opus 3 #11. It served as an inspiration when I saw a quartet perform it.

    • @emanuel_soundtrack
      @emanuel_soundtrack Před rokem

      ​@@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji but the important here is to overrate Beethoven as one can, even understanding nothing what is going on

  • @ferretyluv
    @ferretyluv Před 3 lety

    Thank you so much for the pause at the beginning to show students the music!

  • @ingorichter649
    @ingorichter649 Před 5 lety +2

    Best chamber music instrumental album ever released! Each of it's seven songs (movements) is simply amazing and perfect!

  • @zander8780
    @zander8780 Před 5 lety +8

    30:12 - 6. Adagio quasi un poco andante
    Perfection. This is so emotional.

  • @marichristian1072
    @marichristian1072 Před 7 lety +24

    What a superb performance ! As always, most appreciative of the score. Many thanks.

  • @jameseckert8590
    @jameseckert8590 Před 3 lety +7

    I know this quartet is profound and all - I get and appreciate that - but also... Many years ago I was watching a nature documentary where a spider was filmed up close constructing her entire web. The accompanying music was the Presto 25:10 of this quartet. I did not know at the time what the music was (I made it a point to find out soon as I could), but I do remember thinking - what perfect music to accompany a spider shown spinning a web!

  • @solitaryfables1335
    @solitaryfables1335 Před 3 lety +6

    this was one of the few songs on voyager 1, set into space on September 5th, 1977. now travelling at a speed of 35,000 mph it is 152 astronomical units away (the space between the earth and sun is one Astronomical Unit). this is one of the few songs travelling upon this spec in our observable universe holding what humanity wants the universe to see

    • @alistairmaclean3244
      @alistairmaclean3244 Před 3 lety

      If it was launched today cardi bs new album would be on it... sad decline of the west

    • @klop4228
      @klop4228 Před 3 lety +1

      ​@@alistairmaclean3244 There's no music on the Golden Record that was younger than 18 years old at the time it launched. Cardi B wouldn't be on it. There's some popular music on it (Johnny B. Goode, for example), but most of it is world music and classical music. I'm not a fan of Cardi B. myself, but I don't think it's anything to be worried about. Unless she were paying for it, tbf.
      Source:
      voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/whats-on-the-record/music/

  • @1118saori
    @1118saori Před 4 lety +4

    I love this music.
    thanks so much.

  • @mduftube
    @mduftube Před 10 měsíci +2

    Beethoven considered this to be his most perfect single work. Schubert allegedly said of this quartet, “What is there left for us to write?” I appreciate both sentiments and would advise modern composers to give a wide berth to Op. 131 before they sit down to work - this thing will drive you to despair.

  • @abenhur100
    @abenhur100 Před 7 lety +1

    Thank you for this upload and for the very interesting description.
    I have listened to some trios, quartets and quintets in my life but never really managed to enjoy the genre. This might be the first chamber music piece that I like.

    • @stuartparsons4948
      @stuartparsons4948 Před 6 lety

      Amit Ben-Hur You should try Mozart's last 4 string quintets. They are absolutely sublime!

  • @ddc6363
    @ddc6363 Před 3 lety +7

    "The Adagio will tear your heart out."
    --- Reinhard Heinrich ---

    • @jeffputz1853
      @jeffputz1853 Před 3 lety +1

      "I have never understood the passion for Schubert's sentimental Viennese shit." ~Obersturmbannfuhrer Adolf Eichmann

    • @LavaMLG
      @LavaMLG Před 2 lety

      Damn lol

  • @wodzimierzwosimieta2758
    @wodzimierzwosimieta2758 Před 4 lety +10

    11:01 - opening of op. 59 no 2
    11:13 - main theme of 1st mvt op.74

    • @makytondr8607
      @makytondr8607 Před 3 lety

      Beethoven reused a lot of his melodic ideas. Not in a bad way! :)

  • @mirandac8712
    @mirandac8712 Před 5 lety +4

    Absolutely incredible.

  • @javieramundarainvitali7525

    Thank you for posting this.

  • @stueystuey1962
    @stueystuey1962 Před 3 lety +6

    I think it's worthwhile to listen to composers that came after him. Much has been done that expands the genre of chamber music. Brahms, Schoenberg, Bartok, Carter, Ligeti to name the obvious and perhaps ten or twenty others. There is so much of Beethoven in all of these composers one's appreciation of the master is greatly strengthened.

  • @philipcai9499
    @philipcai9499 Před 6 lety +9

    This quartet is undislikeable

  • @ynsmdd8678
    @ynsmdd8678 Před 2 lety +4

    I had the honor to listen to a live performance and it was so beautiful

  • @denisa.jaskier
    @denisa.jaskier Před 2 lety +8

    30:14
    Liebgott: Yeah, all you need's a little Mozart.
    Nixon: Beethoven.
    Liebgott: Sorry, sir?
    Nixon: That's not Mozart.
    That's Beethoven.
    ...
    Nixon: Hitler's dead.
    Liebgott: Holy shit.
    Nixon: Shot himself in Berlin.
    Bull: Is the war over, sir?
    Nixon: No. We have orders to Berchtesgaden. We're gonna move out in one hour.
    Webster: Why, the man's not home? Should've killed himself three years ago. Saved us a lot of trouble.
    Nixon: Yeah, he should've...
    ...but he didn't.

    • @BigBoiLoses
      @BigBoiLoses Před rokem

      One of the best episodes of the series.

  • @user-cl3eg2js7r
    @user-cl3eg2js7r Před 5 lety +7

    This is the Music for life!

  • @batiri1359
    @batiri1359 Před 7 lety +4

    Thanks for sharing +olla-vogala. Great performance of the Takács Quartet! Cheers!

  • @vixdix1
    @vixdix1 Před 4 lety +1

    hmmmmm... heavenly beautiful! Strong passions and wisdom....

  • @itsvalentino2128
    @itsvalentino2128 Před 6 lety +101

    "germans are good cleaners, they just need some mozart"
    "beethoven"
    "mhh?"
    "It's beethoven, not mozart"
    anyone that gets this reference is awesome

    • @rollingkneebar3534
      @rollingkneebar3534 Před 6 lety +19

      Valentijn 02 “Hitler’s dead...shot himself in Berlin.”

    • @blooeagle5118
      @blooeagle5118 Před 6 lety +17

      He shoulda done it three years ago.. Coulda saved us a lotta trouble.

    • @alexfincher6982
      @alexfincher6982 Před 5 lety +14

      “Yeah he should have... But he didn’t.”

    • @delando9003
      @delando9003 Před 5 lety +6

      Very late reply but it's nice to see some Band of Brothers fans actually looked up the piece

    • @emmarose6590
      @emmarose6590 Před 5 lety +4

      BOB the best series

  • @BalbirSingh-tt8rv
    @BalbirSingh-tt8rv Před 6 lety +3

    Immortality of tenderness and Sublime.

  • @tamaranaszer9113
    @tamaranaszer9113 Před 9 měsíci +3

    Amazing!... Of course is this a masterpiece from Beethoven, but it should be also said, what an incredible performance this is from the Takács Quartet. They really were one of the greatest quartets ever

  • @cj3726
    @cj3726 Před rokem +2

    So beautiful so relaxing. Close your eyes and hear from your heart . Take everything away all you hear is this beautiful and amazing person Beethoven

    • @Ziad3195
      @Ziad3195 Před 3 měsíci

      Relaxing? Beethoven was not a beautiful or amazing person. He was an asshole who actually abused his cousin and made him attempt to shoot himself in his head.

  • @marchsteiger
    @marchsteiger Před 4 lety +5

    this is his death, his final breaths, and then dreams of heaven. briliant

  • @abinermal1234
    @abinermal1234 Před 3 lety +3

    I am here because of Stephen Fry. He selected this piece as his choice for "Desert Island Discs", and I couldn't recall it off the top of my head. Two seconds later, and I arrived here to be transported by this amazing masterpiece! Thank you, Mr. Fry!

  • @ssloestj.4008
    @ssloestj.4008 Před rokem +5

    Beethoven was truly the greatest emotional composer. Man had the most beautiful yet complex pieces all to express himself.

    • @voraciousreader3341
      @voraciousreader3341 Před rokem

      Your statement needs, *”IN MY OPINION”* added to it; first of all there is no objective criteria to determine such a thing, because _ALL OPINIONS ABOUT ART ARE SUBJECTIVE!_ Next, I’ve read so many comments like yours, and it’s amazing how a person’s favorite composer or piece ends up being named by them, “The Best In The World”!! Crazy subjectivity, right???

    • @ssloestj.4008
      @ssloestj.4008 Před rokem

      Alright good lad. First, if you need someone starting out with “in my opinion,” then I feel you need to work on your fact and opinion skills. And secondly, I personally made no attack on anyone or their opinion. I stated my view and left it at that. Why you’re making a neutral comment on a CZcams video into an argument is beyond me. Thank you for your grade school lesson on subjective vs objective truth, I learned my lesson good Monsieur.

    • @ssloestj.4008
      @ssloestj.4008 Před rokem

      And quite frankly I don’t need the English lesson. I enjoyed the composition, made a comment saying how I love Beethoven and how I think he is the greatest, and you struck at me. Go listen to Mozart if you want to cause trouble, not to many people there to argue with.

  • @walterreed9187
    @walterreed9187 Před 5 lety +1

    The Opening Adagio is hesrtbreakimgly
    beautiful.

  • @oceanmachine1906
    @oceanmachine1906 Před 3 lety +1

    So amazing, deeply melancholy

  • @Ivan_1791
    @Ivan_1791 Před 5 lety +6

    I can't believe how good this piece is..

  • @zachstrub8467
    @zachstrub8467 Před 3 lety +5

    His greatest work

  • @alexanderk.3177
    @alexanderk.3177 Před 2 lety

    What an excellent performance! Bravo!

  • @federicomiller8200
    @federicomiller8200 Před rokem

    Gracias por este contenido. Puedo escuchar la música y ver la partitura. Genial.
    Las últimas obras de Beethoven son muy complejas. Especialmente sus últimos cuartetos.

  • @TheJamesalden
    @TheJamesalden Před 8 lety +4

    THANK YOU!!!...

  • @edwardmiller9994
    @edwardmiller9994 Před rokem +5

    30:14 - "That's not Mozart. *That's* Beethoven."

    • @BigBoiLoses
      @BigBoiLoses Před rokem

      Episode 9 Why We Fight
      Probably the best of the series.

  • @arontesfay2520
    @arontesfay2520 Před 4 měsíci

    Those dark melodies in the last movement. So melancholic yet beautiful and comforting at the same time. Of course it's impossible for words to do it justice.

  • @Schleiermacher1000
    @Schleiermacher1000 Před 3 lety

    thank you very much for this video

  • @automatofix
    @automatofix Před 7 lety +36

    4. Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile 11:44
    Var. I 14:15 (Più mosso)
    Var. II 15:14 (Andante moderato e lusinghiero)
    Var. III 16:56 (Adagio)
    Var. IV 19:01 (Allegretto)
    Var. V 19:49 (Adagio, ma non troppo e semplice)
    Var. VI 23:35 (Allegretto)

  • @vaughanosgan2623
    @vaughanosgan2623 Před 3 lety +3

    Supreme genius of classical music forever...

  • @fredogerald1475
    @fredogerald1475 Před 3 lety +1

    The late string quartets to many in unison of experience the summit of ingenuous composing. The touching expressive often in relaxing sonority , how well brought to light by this combination at its best.

  • @annavagagginihu
    @annavagagginihu Před 3 lety +7

    Anyone here for "Hakubo"/"Twilight"? Only me 😶?
    I discovered that quartet thanks to that "film" (almost 55 min.) 😅
    (Sorry for my English: it isn't my native language)

  • @robintranter8260
    @robintranter8260 Před 4 lety +8

    Another masterpiece! Beethoven must have composed more masterpieces than any other composer, he seldom falls below his own high standards.