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Music and Letters 2006 87(1):16-51; doi:10.1093/ml/gci162
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© The Author (2006). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.

‘Late’, Last, and Least: On Being Beethoven’s Quartet in F Major, op. 135

K. M. Knittel

For Scott Burnham

Beethoven’s last completed work, the string quartet in F major, Op. 135, perhaps best exemplifies the chaos unleashed by the Beethoven myth. It fails to live up to most critics’ and analysts’ expectations of a Schwanengesang. A critical examination of its treatment allows us to see how often we attempt to write the story of Beethoven Hero, even if the evidence does not fit. Op. 135 forces us to ask why, in the case of Beethoven, we insist that Beethoven’s life and works must form a symbiotic relationship.


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