Beethoven string quartet lost for 200 years to get premiere in Manchester

Music professor who discovered Quartet in G, Op 18 no 2 reconstructs work to 'make the jigsaw fit'A movement of a Beethoven string quartet, lost in 1799, is to be given its premiere in Manchester on Thursday, after its discovery and reconstruction by Barry Cooper, professor of music at the University of Manchester.The original slow movement of Beethoven's Quartet in G, Op 18 no 2, was written in 1799 when the composer was 28 years old, for his Bohemian patron, Prince Lobkowicz. It was only his s...

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