Classical Music Society -
North County
Classical Music Society ® PO Box 28144 San Diego,CA 92198
CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe described chamber music (specifically, string quartet music) as "four rational people conversing." This conversational paradigm has been a thread woven through the history of chamber music composition from the end of the 18th century to the present. The analogy to conversation recurs in descriptions and analyses of chamber music compositions.
Joseph Haydn is generally credited with creating the modern form of chamber music as we know it. Haydn established the conversational style of composition and the overall form that was to dominate the world of chamber music for the next two centuries.
If Haydn created the conversational style of composition, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart greatly expanded its vocabulary. His chamber music added numerous masterpieces to the chamber music repertoire. Mozart's seven piano trios and two piano quartets were the first to apply the conversational principle to chamber music with piano.
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