Mozart Requiem and Beethoven Books

[Ein Heldenleben]

Can anybody recommend a good book ( or website), on the late Beethoven quartets please?

The Basil Lam BBC music guide is a good basic introduction though it’s not really that basic. The Beethoven Quartet Companion and the more recent tome by William Kinderman are more “scholarly “ and academic . The works lend themselves to complex music analysis so be warned! To be honest they are almost beyond “analysis”.

[Parry1912]

I love the HC Robbins Landon book

[richardfinegold]

Can anybody recommend a good book ( or website), on the late Beethoven quartets please?

I remember reading Charles Rosen on the subject, but I can’t remember if it was in his book The Classical Style or elsewhere

[Ein Heldenleben]

I remember reading Charles Rosen on the subject, but I can’t remember if it was in his book The Classical Style or elsewhere

Might have been Sonata Forms ?