Inside Beethoven's Quartets

History, Performance, Interpretation

Lewis Lockwood and the Juilliard String Quartet

  • 2009 Silver Winner Independent Publisher Book Awards, Performing Arts Category
  • Preface
  • Note on the Scores

Opus 18 no. 1

  • The Opus 18 Quartets
  • The First Movement
  • Conversation
  • Annotated Score

Opus 59 no. 1

  • The “Razumovsky” Quartets
  • The First Movement
  • Conversation
  • Annotated Score

Opus 130

  • The Late Quartets
  • The First Movement
  • Conversation
  • Annotated Score
  • Appendix: Opus 18 no. 1 (Amenda Version)
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

Audio CD

  1. Op. 18 no. 1, mvt. 1 (final version)
  2. Op. 18 no. 1, mvt. 1 (Amenda version)
  3. Op. 59 no. 1, mvt. 1
  4. Op. 130, mvt. 1
  • Cover: Inside Beethoven's Quartets
  • A photo of the author

photo of Lewis Lockwood (top) by Tom Kates; photo of Juilliard String Quartet (below) by Merri Cyr

Lewis Lockwood is Fanny Peabody Research Professor of Music, Harvard University.

Joel Smirnoff is a member of the internationally renowned Juilliard String Quartet and on the faculty of The Juilliard School in New York City.

Ronald Copes is a member of the internationally renowned Juilliard String Quartet and on the faculty of The Juilliard School in New York City.

Samuel Rhodes is a member of the internationally renowned Juilliard String Quartet and on the faculty of The Juilliard School in New York City.

Joel Krosnick is a member of the internationally renowned Juilliard String Quartet and on the faculty of The Juilliard School in New York City.