Quartet in C major Op. 73 No, 1 John Hoybye the festive atmosphere and instrumentation

the festive atmosphere and instrumentation of the opening and closing choruses mirror the triumphant joy of Christ’s ascension

arranged as a rhymed libretto with various roles by Franz Bonn (1830-1854)

it follows from the logic of composing a quadruple fugue that the combinations joining all four subjects and rendered the latest when performing the work were already completed in the very first stage of composition because the possibility of overlapping the four subjects (1+2+3+4) is the sine qua non of writing a quadruple fugue

Ludwig van Beethoven composed his Elegiac Song in memory of Eleonore Pasqualati

Quartet in C major Op. 73 No, 1 John Hoybye the festive atmosphere and instrumentation