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Prince Nikolai Borisovich Golitsyn ((ロシア語:Николай Борисович Голицын), alternatively spelled Galitzin; 8 December/19 December 1794 – 22 October/3 November 1866)〔Geoffrey Norris, "Golitsïn (), Prince Nikolay Borisovich," ''Oxford Music Online (Music Online )'' accessed 13 July 2015. Russia was still using old style dates in the 19th century.〕 was a Russian aristocrat, of the Galitzine family. He was an amateur musician, and is known particularly for his commissioning three string quartets from Ludwig van Beethoven, which are among the composer's late string quartets. ==The commission== The prince had lived for a while in Vienna and knew the music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. He played the cello; his wife was an accomplished pianist. He arranged piano works of Beethoven for string quartet and string quintet.〔''Beethoven Encyclopedia'', by Paul Nettl. Philosophical Library, New York, 1956.〕〔(The Late Quartets ) ''The Beethoven Quartet Companion'', edited by Robert Winter, Robert Martin, accessed 10 May 2014.〕 In November 1822 he commissioned Beethoven to write string quartets. He wrote in French from Saint Petersburg to the composer:
Beethoven agreed to this, requesting 50 ducats for each quartet.〔 He had not written a string quartet since his Op. 95 in 1810. In 1823 he was occupied with writing his Ninth Symphony, and he began serious work on the quartets in 1824. The first of these, the String Quartet No. 12 in E flat major, Op. 127, was given its first performance by the Schuppanzigh Quartet in March 1825. The quartet later performed the other two works commissioned, the String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major, Op. 130 and String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132.〔〔〔(The early performers of the quartets of Beethoven ) Elias String Quartet: the Beethoven Project, accessed 10 April 2014.〕 Beethoven received the fee for the first quartet; although the prince acknowledged his debt for the other quartets, it was not paid in the composer's lifetime, the matter being finally settled with Beethoven's heirs in 1852.〔 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「Nikolai Borisovich Galitzine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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