Franz Schubert composed his String Quartet No. 10 ( D. 87) in E-flat major in 1813.

Historical background

Musicologist Otto Erich Deutsch records that the youthful work (Schubert was sixteen years old at the time) was first performed privately in the Schubert household, by members of the family. Perhaps in part for this reason, this composition has acquired the nickname of the ''"Haushaltung"'' (Household) Quartet. Author Melvin Berger suggests that the quartet’s nickname has stuck because the piece "is so well suited for home performance,” calling it “technically … quite undemanding” to accommodate the “limited performing abilities” of amateur musicians.Berger, Melvin. ''Guide to Chamber Music,'' 3rd Edition. Mineola, New York: Dover Books, 2001; p. 384. The quartet was published only posthumously, in 1830, as Op. 125 No. 1.

Movements

# Allegro moderato (E-flat major) # Scherzo. Prestissimo (E-flat major, with Trio in C minor) # Adagio (E-flat major) # Allegro (E-flat major) The work is homotonal: that is, all the movements are in the same key — in this case the tonic key of E-flat major.

References

Sources

Franz Schubert's Works Franz Schubert's Works: Complete and Authoritative Edition (german: Franz Schubert's Werke: Kritisch durchgesehene Gesammtausgabe), also known as the Collected Edition, is a late 19th-century publication of Franz Schubert's compositions.Deutsch 19 ...

, Series V: Streichquartette edited by Joseph Hellmesberger and Eusebius Mandyczewski. Breitkopf & Härtel, 1890. * Otto Erich Deutsch (and others). ''

Schubert Thematic Catalogue ''Schubert: Thematic Catalogue of all his Works in Chronological Order'', also known as the Deutsch catalogue, is a numbered list of all compositions by Franz Schubert compiled by Otto Erich Deutsch. Since its first publication in 1951, Deutsch ...

'' (several editions), No. 87. *

New Schubert Edition Franz Schubert (1797–1828): New Edition of the Complete Works (), commonly known as the New Schubert Edition (NSE), or, in german: Neue Schubert-Ausgabe (NSA), is a complete edition of Franz Schubert's works, which started in 1956 and is schedu ...

Series VI, Volume 4: String Quartets II
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Werner Aderhold Werner Aderhold (4 November 1937 – 15 February 2021) was a German musicologist. Life Born in Dortmund, Aderhold was a long-time collaborator of the New Schubert Edition at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. Initially, he contribute ...

Bärenreiter Bärenreiter (Bärenreiter-Verlag) is a German classical music publishing house based in Kassel. The firm was founded by Karl Vötterle (1903–1975) in Augsburg in 1923, and moved to Kassel in 1927, where it still has its headquarters; it also ...

, 1994.

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