String Quartets, Vol. I (Early String Quartets)/Softcover

String Quartets - Volume I ((Early String Quartets)) ** By Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) ** Edited by Gottfried Greiner and Georg Feder. String Quartets. Henle Music Folios. Pages: Vl I Part = 52 * Vl II Part = 51 * Va Part = 50 * Vc Part = 44. Softcover. 200 pages. G. Henle Verlag #HN205. Published by G. Henle Verlag.

The Weinzierl castle in Lower Austria, which still stands today, can be considered to be the birthplace of a chamber music genre, which is firmly established in our present-day repertoire. The young Haydn was invited to spend some time at this place by a wealthy musical friend and often met up with the steward at the castle, the castle priest and the cellist Anton Albrechtsberger to make music. Although his first two works for