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	Grosse Fuge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Große Fuge is a composition for string quartet by Ludwig van Beethoven famous for its extreme technical demands on the players as well as for its unrelentingly introspective nature, even by the standards of his late period.
		In addition, the Große Fuge is an example of a compositional process Beethoven explored late in life: a combination of elements of variation form, sonata form, and fugue.
		In October of 2005, a new transcription of the Grosse Fuge by Beethoven was discovered in a seminary in Philadelphia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grosse_Fuge (560 words)

	Encyclopedia: String Quartets Nos. 12 - 16 and Grosse Fuge, Opus 127, 130 - 135 (Beethoven) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		12 - 16 and Grosse Fuge, Opus 127, 130 - 135 (Beethoven)
		Opus 133: Große Fuge in B flat major for string quartet (1826).
		For Grosse Fuge: see also String Quartet No. 13, and of course also P.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/String-Quartets-Nos.-12-_-16-and-Grosse-Fuge,-Opus-127,-130-_-135-%28Beethoven%29 (235 words)

	grossefuge.htm.
		This article centres on the Grosse Fuge because it is the most problematic of all these difficult works, and has been the slowest in finding favour with players and listeners; indeed, one might say that it is the problem work of all time.
		Likewise in the Grosse Fuge, after ears and fiddles havebeen battered almost beyond endurance, the tranquil Andante (3) is heard in an altered state of consciousness.
		He ends the Grosse Fuge as he ends every one of the late quartets: with a sublime whimsy, an elusive mercurial joy, which I am not the first to identify with the transfiguring "gaiety" of the Taoist sages on Yeat's lapis lazuli mountain.
	people.colgate.edu /jgodwin/grossefuge.htm.asp (2589 words)

	artsworld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Beethoven composed the Grosse Fuge in 1825 as the final movement of his String Quartet in B flat major, Op 130 - part of the string quartets Opp 127-135 that were to be his last works.
		The Grosse Fuge, however, never made it into the string quartet it was intended for.
		Beethoven's publisher asked him to substitute another last movement; the composer agreed, and the Grosse Fuge was issued posthumously in May 1827 as a separate piece, Op 133.
	www.artsworld.tv /genre/features.asp?ID=2992&genreID=1 (214 words)

	Soundpost Online Spring '04
		Artaria and Co. published the whole String Quartet, the new finale, and the arrangement of the Grosse Fuge for four-hand piano in May 1827, a few months after Beethoven’s death.
		Grosse Fuga is an exceptionally complex, difficult, unpianistic and nearly unplayable piece of music.
		Yet as an essay on the art of the fugue, it is at the composer’s highest level of imagination, skill and creativity with extremely interesting and carefully crafted details.
	www.soundpostonline.com /archive/spring2004/page3.htm (1943 words)

	A Historic Discovery, in Beethoven's Own Hand - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The "Grosse Fuge," originally part of a string quartet, had been badly treated by a baffled public, and he was evidently eager to see it live on in a form in which music lovers could play it on their pianos at home.
		The newly discovered manuscript is also a rare piano transcription by Beethoven of one of his own works, and the only complete manuscript source for the piano version of the "Grosse Fuge." It will allow, finally, for a critical edition of the piece.
		Above all, it may shed light on Beethoven's conception of the "Grosse Fuge," a work with almost mythical status in the music world, variously described by historians as a "leviathan," a "symphonic poem" and an achievement on the scale of the finale of his Ninth Symphony and Bach's "Art of Fugue."
	www.nytimes.com /2005/10/13/arts/music/13beet.html?ex=1129867200&en=2d513c52d3a3506e&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVERNEWS (867 words)

	10th season gets off to strong start
		130 is a very different piece when it includes the 15-minute "Grosse Fuge," a frenzied, four-voice abstraction of symphonic proportion; think of a deaf Beethoven, his hair famously mussed, shaking a defiant fist at fate.
		The "Grosse Fuge" was published separately, but many groups today are choosing to perform Op.
		The players -- violinists Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer, violist Lawrence Dutton and cellist David Finckel -- attacked the "Grosse Fuge" with remarkable physicality and an expressive marriage of individual liberty and cohesive ensemble that could stand as a definitive statement of the Emerson's style.
	www.freep.com /entertainment/music/glf16_20030616.htm (471 words)

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		String Quartet No. 13 In B-Flat Major, Op.130 With Grosse Fuge: II.
		I still have the Julliard Quartet lp set of the Beethoven middle quartets -- and their much-acclaimed first set of the Bartok quartets among other fine lps -- but this is the first Julliard CD I have acquired.
		I was persuaded by the Gramophone review, which seemed to indicate that the substitue allegro finale was included after the Grosse Fuga, and all was followed by the Op.
	www.thesession.org /shop/display.php/B0000029UG (307 words)

	mb gfug eng (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Beethoven conceived his Grosse Fuge as the sixth and final movement of his String Quartet in B flat Major, Op.130, written in 1825.
		Even today, the Grosse Fuge is considered very demanding both by executants and listeners.
		Using a solo quartet as well as a string orchestra also enables the structural contrasts implied within the score to be more effectively highlighted than in either the original string quartet version or later orchestral transcriptions.
	www.meirion-bowen.com /mbgfugeng.htm (343 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Music \| Missing Beethoven score for sale
		Grosse Fuge is one of Beethoven's few compositions for piano duet
		The score of Grosse Fuge, which has the composer's changes, was found by a librarian at a US religious school.
		The German composer wrote Grosse Fuge while contending with deafness.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/entertainment/music/4337858.stm (325 words)

	San Francisco Bay Guardian \| Arts and Entertainment
		As the leader of the women, she sets the tone, with sassy high kicks and, just for good measure, a quick pinup pose.
		Finally, van Manen's Grosse fuge is set to an orchestration of sections from two Beethoven string quartets.
		A work for eight dancers, Fuge has a few bright spots, among them Lorena Feijoo, who slyly plays Moises Martin as much as he does her, and young Pauli Magierek, whose ferocious partnering with Peter Brandenhoff shows she is a dancer to be reckoned with.
	www.sfbg.com /39/24/art_dance_square.html (596 words)

	BEETHOVEN Complete String Quartets Volume 8 Naxos: Classical CD Reviews- Feb 2001 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Kodaly Quartet's Beethoven odyssey continues with one of the late, 'Galitsin quartets and the ultimate test, the Grosse Fuge.
		Truth be told, the two go together, since the Grosse Fuge started life as the finale of the B flat Quartet, opus 130, before Beethoven's misgivings about its scale led to him replacing it with a shorter and more engaging movement.
		As for the Grosse Fuge, the technical difficulties are surmounted with a confidence which allows the attention to be drawn to the musical argument, and rightly so.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2001/Feb01/Beethoven_Quartets_Vol8.htm (326 words)

	Beethoven Violin Concerto Menuhin Archipel ARPCD0257 [JW]: Classical CD Reviews- May 2004 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Furtwängler was hardly unique in programming the orchestral arrangements of the Cavatina from Op.130 or the Grosse Fuge.
		The 1940 Cavatina suffers from rather a boxy studio acoustic but is splendidly evocative — and this is the only performance of it to have survived.
		This Grosse Fuge broadcast has been less issued over the years than the 1954 Vienna Philharmonic performance, which I last saw on Music and Arts.
	musicweb-international.com /classrev/2004/May04/Beethovenvc_Menuhin.htm (769 words)

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	DAILY BRUIN ONLINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It was a calculated move on the part of the Arditti Quartet, if not a bit risky because those interested strictly in the Beethoven piece could leave at intermission.
		The "Grosse Fuge," with its banging contrapuntal melodic explosions, was so strange for its time that Beethoven took it out of its original context in a longer piece to make it independent.
		Historically, Beethoven marks the beginning of many musical movements, and the Arditti Quartet followed the "Grosse Fuge" with pieces that continued the composer's experimentation.
	www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /news/printable.asp?id=22556&date=1/29/2003 (510 words)

	La Folia -- Walt's Ratatouille 7.
		Hard on the instrument and on the players, Beethoven’s piano-four hands transcription of his Grosse Fuge is also hard to find.
		They essay the Grosse Fuge from a contempo angle — clean and hard-hitting.
		Pedestrian accounts on fonè and Stradivarius have departed over here; each had the Grosse Fuge in the company of Beethoven’s early salon-aimed items for two — dismal and revealing.
	www.lafolia.com /archive/walt/walt200412ratatouille7.html (1401 words)

	Document
		130; Grosse Fuge in B flat major, Op.
		The Lindsay won a Gramophone Award when their set first appeared on LP, only a year after the Alban Berg, and their merits were outlined at great length at the time.
		In the present form, the finale Beethoven subsequently composed is included: it is placed after the Grosse Fuge so you will have to programme your player accordingly if you want to hear it in the way Beethoven finally intended.
	home.wanadoo.nl /jdpt/reviews/Beet/amadeusq_ABQ1_talichq.htm (1372 words)

	MDT - 100282, Arthaus Musik DVD-Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7, Grosse Fuge, Piano Variations: Music by Serge Prokofiev, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy The Dutch National Ballet Arthaus DVD PAL
		GROSSE FUGE – Music by Ludwig van Beethoven
		133 in B flat major (Grosse Fuge) and the Cavatina from opus 130 in B flat major to create an abstract ballet on van Manen's favourite theme, the tension and relationships between humans.
	www.mdt.co.uk /MDTSite/product/DVD/100282.htm (261 words)

	Große*Fuge
		A skilled musician would be able to create hundreds of different tones and sounds with a violin bow, on a flat sound generator (such as a metal plate, a gong or a tamtam).
		Such a model is the foundation for the Grosse Fuge - only that it´s not a violin bow to evoke the tones but once more the roaring of the water masses: vitreous, metallic, breathlike the tones build upon one another, some of them floating free, others following the pulse of the roaring water.
		Like huge, multidimensional waves across all eight systems of speakers more and more dense layers build up, which make the sound of the whole surface perceptible.
	www.tanzhotel.at /English/katharsis/k_fuge.htm (367 words)

	The Rich Atkinson Blog
		130 quartet with its original finale, the "Grosse Fuge." Behind these performances is the belief that following the composer's initial intent is somehow more authentic or correct.
		Although it's interesting (from a historical perspective) to experience the quartet as it was first envisioned, this type of performance should be much less frequent.
		The Grosse Fuge, given its monolithic nature, doesn't deserve to be trivialized by these previous movements (I'm not questioning their quality, but they have a much different character), and these movements don't deserve to be bogged down or overshadowed by the fugue.
	richatkinson.blogspot.com (2704 words)

	Sendit.com - Dutch National Ballet - Beethoven Symphony No. 7 / Grosse Fuge (DVD) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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		'Grosse Fuge' is accompanied by an abstract ballet which concerns relationships.
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	♫The Klemperer Legacy: Beethoven Symphony No.3 ("Eroica"); Grosse Fuge by Ludwig van Beethoven, Otto Klemperer, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Splendid all the way through and this CD contains also Grosse Fuge.
		I've heard numerous recordins of this symphony, but I was simply blown away by this one like no other.
		All in all, this CD ought to be in any collection of Beethoven's symphonies, as well as Klemperer's recordings of the other Beethoven symphonies, which are just as outstanding.
	www.neo-csi.com /sound/product-infos-Ludwig+van+BeethovenOtto+KlempererPhilharmonia+Orchestra-asin-B00000DFO0.html (419 words)

	Find in a Library: Complete string quartets and Grosse Fuge from the Breitkopf & Härtel complete works edition.
		Find in a Library: Complete string quartets and Grosse Fuge from the Breitkopf & Härtel complete works edition.
		Complete string quartets and Grosse Fuge from the Breitkopf & Härtel complete works edition.
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	Amazon.ca: Books: Late String Quartets and the Grosse Fuge, Opp. 127, 130-133, 135 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Amazon.ca: Books: Late String Quartets and the Grosse Fuge, Opp.
		They are published here with bar-numbered movements and ample margins for notes and analysis, ideal for study in the classroom, at home, or in the concert hall.
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	Fuge Sheet Music 15! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Classical, Beethoven: Complete String Quartets and Grosse Fuge Sheet Music by Dover.
		Classical, Seiber M Praeludium U Fuge a-Moll Sheet Music by Hal Leonard.
		Classical, String Quartet #17:grosse Fuge Sheet Music by Presser.
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	Beethoven: The String Quartets- Grosse Fuge
		I recently spent several days at home recovering from minor surgery and took the opportunity to revist the Beethoven string quartets and the Beethoven piano sonatas.
		This study places Beethoven's achievement in its historical and musical context and includes lengthy treatments of each of the three groups of string quartets.
		This is old world quartet playing -- warm, detailed phrasing and an emphasis on tonal beauty.
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