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The other Razumovskys

The other Razumovskys

Every chamber music lover knows that Beethoven wrote a set of three string quartets in 1806 for Count Razumovsky, the Russian ambassador in Vienna.

Razumovsky employed a house quartet, led by Beethoven’s friend Ignaz Schuppanzigh (see my book Why Beethoven for more).

But Beethoven was not the only composer to accept a Razumovsky commission.

There was a violist called Franz Weiss (1784-1830) who composed a pair of quartets. Nobody’s ever heard of them. Now Canada’s Eybler Quartet have recorded them. Out next month.

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