Lethbridge Symphony Chamber V: Beethoven op.131

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“In looking back through the course of Beethoven’s life as a man, what may be most astonishing about him is that he survived the burden of being Beethoven. So much weighed on him: so much music roiled inside, so much rage, so much delusion, so much anguish physical and mental. No wonder his time called him superhuman. But the truer and sadder reality is that Beethoven lived to the ultimate capacities of being human, and he encompassed that in his art. As one of the defining figures of the revolutionary age, he witnessed and spoke for all of us a new vision of what it means to be human.” -biographer Jan Swafford

MSQ presents Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 14 Op. 131 in C Sharp minor. Beethoven’s favourite out of all of his quartets, and written just a year before his death, this seven-movement masterpiece is performed without pause, taking the listener on a journey from darkness to light, one full of extraordinary thematic transformation, harmonic diversity and structural innovation. Don’t miss this chance to hear one of Beethoven’s greatest late quartets performed live.