Ludwig van Beethoven: Streichquartett B-Dur Op. 130: Grande Fugue B-Dur Op. 133: Autograph.Ulrich Konrad.

Anxious to free Beethoven's compositions from the ideologically driven notion of "lateness" - 'why should it be impossible to look at works at chronologically late points in Beethoven's creative biography without highly loaded historical and aesthetic prejudgements ... ? For Joseph Kerman, the String Quartet in B flat, Op. 130, was Beethoven's "most dissociated composition" ( I The Beethoven Quartets i (London, 1967), 321), the antithesis to the paradigm of "integration" represented by the C sharp minor work, Op. 131. [Extracted from the article]