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Karl Holz (1798 – 9 Nov 1858〔(Holz, Karl ) ''Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich'', Vol. 9, 1863, p243, accessed 29 April 2014.〕) was an Austrian violinist. He played in Ignaz Schuppanzigh's string quartet and was a friend of Ludwig van Beethoven at the time when the composer was writing his late string quartets. ==Early career== He was an official at the Estates of Lower Austria.〔 In Vienna in 1819 the violinist Joseph Böhm assembled a string quartet, and Holz joined as second violin. In 1823 the violinist Ignaz Schuppanzigh returned to the city after several years away. He had formed a string quartet in Vienna in the 1790s; he was a friend of Beethoven and had given the first performance of the composer's first set of string quartets Op. 18. Böhm's quartet disbanded, and Holz joined Schuppanzigh's reformed quartet.〔(The early performers of the quartets of Beethoven ) Elias String Quartet: the Beethoven Project, accessed 10 April 2014.〕〔(William Drabkin ) ''Beethoven Forum'', edited by Mark Evan Bonds, Elaine Sisman, accessed 4 May 2014.〕 In 1824 Beethoven, who had not written a string quartet since his Op. 95 in 1810, began work on a commission from Prince Nicholas Galitzin to write three string quartets. The first of these, the String Quartet Op. 127, was given its first performance by Schuppanzigh's quartet the following year. The quartet later performed the other two works commissioned, the String Quartet Op. 130 and String Quartet Op. 132.〔〔 ==Beethoven's secretary== Holz, involved in these quartets, became acquainted with Beethoven; he was one of Beethoven's copyists. Beethoven's relations with his secretary Anton Schindler deteriorated in 1825, and Holz became Beethoven's secretary. Letters to Holz and entries in Beethoven's conversation books (used by people when conversing with the composer in his later years) show that Holz was a devoted admirer, and of great help to the composer.〔〔''Beethoven Encyclopedia'', by Paul Nettl. Philosophical Library, New York, 1956.〕 Some years later, Holz talked to the music scholar Ludwig Nohl about the composer during the time of writing the late quartets: "While composing the three quartets requested by Prince Galitzin, such a wealth of new quartet ideas flowed from Beethoven's inexhaustible imagination that he virtually had to write the Quartets in C-Sharp Minor and F Major involuntarily. 'My dear fellow, I've just had another idea,' he would say jocularly and with glistening eyes when we were out walking, and would write down a few notes in his sketchbook."〔''Beethoven: A Documentary Study'', by H. C. Robbins Landon, p180. Thames & Hudson, 1970.〕 Also as told to Ludwig Nohl, Holz said, "For him the crowning achievement of his quartet writing, and his favourite piece, was the E-Flat Cavatina in 3/4 time from the Quartet in B-Flat Major. He actually composed it in tears of melancholy (in the summer of 1825) and confessed to me that his own music had never had such an effect on him before, and that even thinking back to that piece cost him fresh tears."〔''Beethoven: A Documentary Study'', by H. C. Robbins Landon, p190. Thames & Hudson, 1970.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Karl Holz (violinist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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