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Beethoven opens his C major quartet, Op. 59 No. 3, in uncertainty, a slow introduction wandering far from home before the Allegro arrives like a door thrown open and the finale replies with a headlong fugue. Two decades later, in the year of Beethoven's death, an eighteen-year-old Felix Mendelssohn fell in love and immersed himself […]

Beethoven opens his C major quartet, Op. 59 No. 3, in uncertainty, a slow introduction wandering far from home before the Allegro arrives like a door thrown open and the finale replies with a headlong fugue. Two decades later, in the year of Beethoven's death, an eighteen-year-old Felix Mendelssohn fell in love and immersed himself […]