RODE, Pierre 1774-1830

[Op. 11]. Quatuor [in E-flat major] pour deux Violons Alto et Violoncelle dédié à Son Altesse Royale Monseigneur le Prince Louis Ferdinand de Prusse... Oeuv. 11. Prix 16 gr. [Parts]

Leipsic: Breitkopf et Härtel [PN 332], [1806].

Folio. Disbound. Violino primo: [1] (title), [i] (blank), 3-7, [i] (blank) pp.; Violino secondo: 3, [i] (blank) pp.; Viola: 3, [i] (blank) pp.; Violoncello: 3, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved.

Browned; moderately foxed; some lower inner corners dampstained.

Rare (no copies in WorldCat, 1copy at Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire, Strasbourg).

The present quartet is not to be confused with the F-major quartet also published under the opus number 11 by Hoffmeister & Kühnel in 1805.

"[French] violinist and composer... Rode had a short but brilliant career. As one of the great virtuosos of his time he... was celebrated in all European capitals (except London)... Rode's compositions are almost exclusively devoted to his instrument... As Rode was closely attached to the string quartets of Haydn and Mozart as a... performer, he also practiced the genre as a composer and wrote attractive works, which, however, are clearly in the French tradition of the Quatuor brillant, as the first violin dominates and the other strings only accompany." Manuela Jahrmärker in MGG2.

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