String Quartets, Vol. XI, Op. 77 And Op. 103 (Softcover)

String Quartets - Volume XI, Op. 77 and Op. 103 ** by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) ** Edited by Horst Walter. String Quartets. Henle Music Folios. Pages: Vl I Part = VII and 25 * Vl II Part = 22 * Va Part = 20 * Vc Part = 20. Softcover. 102 pages. G. Henle Verlag #HN215. Published by G. Henle Verlag.

These are the last of the nearly seventy quartets in Haydns oeuvre. Originally he intended to write a set of six quartets, as so often in the past, but at the time they were written, in 1803, Haydns health was so poor that he could not fully satisfy the commission from Prince Lobkowitz. Instead he published only two complete quartets as Op. 77. Later he allowed an incomplete work consisting of two middle movements to appear as Op. 103, adding to the print the portentous words: