Fröhlich's teacher Carl Friedrich Zelter found his unconventional musical solutions displeasing, which Fröhlich defiantly termed "traces of inner revolution."
Composition History
Despite composing four string quartets, only one of Friedrich Theodor Fröhlich's quartets has been published, with the others remaining in manuscript form.
Performer Biography
Maxim Shostakovich, son of composer Dmitri Shostakovich and a renowned interpreter of his father's works, praised the Rasumovsky Quartet's recording of his father's music as "among the best recordings of all of my father's music."
Interpretation
The Rasumovsky Quartet's core repertoire includes string quartets of Viennese classicism, performed with a historically informed approach.
Performer Biography
The Rasumovsky Quartet, founded in 2001, gained international recognition for its complete recording of Dmitri Shostakovich's fifteen string quartets.
Composer Biography
Fröhlich's musical encounters in Berlin were not always positive; Felix Mendelssohn, whom he admired, snubbed him, and his teacher Carl Friedrich Zelter disapproved of his unconventional musical ideas.
Composer Biography
Friedrich Theodor Fröhlich, a Swiss composer from the Aargau, received only two years of formal music instruction, leading him to be largely self-taught.
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