Research in Music at University of Manchester
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 The Guardian |
Beethoven string quartet lost for 200 years to get premiere in Manchester The Guardian Photograph: Archivo Iconografico, SA/CORBIS A movement of a Beethoven string quartet, lost in 1799, is to be given its premiere in Manchester on Thursday, after its discovery and reconstruction by Barry Cooper, professor of music at the University of ... |
 Telegraph.co.uk |
'Lost' Beethoven work brought back to life Telegraph.co.uk It had been thought that the first draft of the quartet had been lost forever, until Sieghard Brandenburg, a German music scholar, unearthed detailed sketches made by the composer as part of a research project in 1977. Thirty years later, Barry Cooper, ... |
 BBC News |
'Lost' Beethoven work to be aired BBC News Beethoven wrote the slow movement for his string quartet Opus 18 Number Two in 1799 before discarding it and composing another version a year later. The original has not survived, but has now been reconstructed by Prof Barry Cooper of Manchester ... |
 Daily Mail | Lost Beethoven masterpiece to get 1st performance for 200 years after ... Daily Mail Professor Barry Cooper rediscovered the lost 'slow movement' of Beethoven's String Quartet in G, Opus 18 Number 2 after examining the composer's rough drafts. The piece, originally composed by the German maestro in 1799, will be performed by Manchester ... |
University of Manchester |
Lost part of Beethoven masterpiece lives again University of Manchester Professor Barry Cooper's reconstruction of the original slow movement of Beethoven's String Quartet in G, Opus 18 Number 2, will be heard in something like its original form this week, in a performance by the University's resident string quartet ... |
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'Lost' Beethoven masterpiece is brought back to life by Manchester University ... Manchester Evening News The work has been now been restored by Manchester University professor Barry Cooper – and the university's string quartet will give the first public rendition of the completed piece for centuries. Prof Cooper, a renowned expert on Beethoven, ... |
 Reuters |
UK expert reconstructs "missing" Beethoven movement Reuters The "lost" piece of music was part of the "String Quartet in G, Opus 18 Number 2", and Thursday's recital will "almost certainly" be the first time it has been performed since Beethoven's lifetime, said Cooper, the university's professor of music. ... |
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Lost Beethoven work reconstructed by UK music professor Herald Sun A LOST composition by Ludwig van Beethoven will be performed for the first time in more than 200 years, a British university has announced. Scholars have been trying to reconstruct a lost four-minute movement in Beethoven's String Quartet in G, ... |
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Beethoven's lost tune restored by British University Herald Sun The piece - the original slow movement of Beethoven's String Quartet in G, Opus 18 Number 2 - was composed in 1799, but was discarded a year later. The composer then wrote a different movement, said Barry Cooper, a music professor at the University of ... |
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Lost Beethoven piece reconstructed Hindustan Times AP A composition by Beethoven that was discarded and unheard for over 200 years has been reconstructed, a British university professor said on Wednesday. The piece - the original slow movement of Beethoven's String Quartet in G Opus 18 Number 2 - was ... |