String Quartets - A Most Intimate Medium: A Listener's Guide to the Genre Since 1800

It has often been said that string quartets represent a composer's most intimate and personal works, a statement with which I wholeheartedly agree. After listening to string quartets for over 25 years, I have come to believe this humble assembly of two violins, viola and cello somehow manages to express the whole range of human emotional experiences.This Second Edition of the book contains discussions of 360 string quartets by 240 composers, from 1800 through to the present day. It is writt...