A guide to Jörg Widmann's music

Widmann's essential project is to reveal the continuing vitality of Mozart or Schubert – and he brings it kicking and screaming into the present dayListen to this. Sound familiar? It both should – and shouldn't. Jörg Widmann's Third String Quartet, the "Jagdquartett" (Hunt Quartet) is based, as you'll have heard even from just the first few bars, on the obsessive repeated rhythms from the first movement of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. But the German composer Widmann, who is not yet 40, dar...

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