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Haydn, eds. Feder and Gerlach – String Quartets, Book 4 (Sun Quartets, Op. 20) – 2 Violins, Viola, and Cello

• Publisher: Henle Urtext Edition
• Series:Henle Music Folios
• Compser: Franz Joseph Hayd
• Editors: Georg Feder, Gerlach
• Format:Softcover Book
• Length: 144 pgs

• The study edition complements the parts of the String Quartets op. 20 that have already been published in Henle Urtext (HN 208); a new preface by Christin Heitmann provides illuminating background information. Haydn did not assign the nickname “Sun Quartets”: it alludes to an edition of the time, in which the title page was decorated with a rising sun. The Quartets op. 20 are the last series in a group of earlier string quartets, but are clearly ahead of their time. The demanding fugues which close three of the six quartets are a particular structural feature.