The String Quartets of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven: Studies of the Autograph Manuscripts - Wolff, Christoph 1940-; Riggs, Robert -1946 (Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press, 1980)
Lockwood, L. Introductory remarks.--Somfai, L. An introduction to the study of Haydn's quartet autographs (with special attention to Opus 77/G)--Webster, J. The significance of Haydn's quartet autographs for performance practice.--Feder, G. Haydn's corrections in the autographs of the Quartets opus 64 and opus 71/74.--Finscher, L. Aspects of Mozart's compositional process in the Quartet autographs: I. The early quartets. II. The genesis of K. 387.--Flothuis, M. A close reading of the autographs of Mozart's ten late quartets.--Tyson, A. Mozart's Haydn quartets : the contribution of paper studies.--Wolff, C. Creative exhuberance vs. critical choice : thoughts on Mozart's quartet fragments.--Kramer, R. Das Organische der Fuge : on the autograph of Beethoven's Quartet in F major, opus 59, no. 1.--Brandenburg, S. The autograph of Beethoven's Quartet in A minor, opus 132 : the structure of the manuscript and its relevance for the study of the genesis of the work.--Staehelin, M. Another approach to Beethoven's last quartet oeuvre : the unfinished string quintet of 1826/27.
A conference at Isham Memorial Library, March 15-17, 1979
Keywords: Haydn, Joseph -- 1732-1809; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus -- 1756-1791; Beethoven, Ludwig van -- 1770-1827; 18th Century (1701-1800); 19th Century (1801-1900); String quartet; Manuscript; Austria