The Schneider Quartet is named after its leader, Alexander Schneider, a remarkable musician born in Vilnius, Lithuania, who was partly self-taught as a violinist.
Recording & Production
The Haydn Society, founded in Boston, Massachusetts, aimed to furnish recordings of Haydn's works on new long-playing discs (LPs) after World War II.
Recording & Production
This album features newly re-mastered recordings, mostly from the original master tapes of The Haydn Society Recordings (1951-1954).
Performer Biography
Alexander Schneider, the leader of the Schneider Quartet, single-handedly initiated the 1950 Casals Festival in Prades to encourage the great cellist Pablo Casals to break his self-imposed political exile.
Recording & Production
The Schneider Quartet's recording project for the Haydn Society was halted halfway through due to a lack of funds, leaving many quartets unrecorded.
Recording & Production
The dream of recording all of Franz Joseph Haydn's string quartets took many decades to realize, becoming a practical possibility in the late 1920s.
Interpretation
The Schneider Quartet's research for their Haydn cycle revealed that all present-day editions of Haydn's quartets contained mistakes, some serious, and that Haydn's manuscripts were often more specific than realized.
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