“I have the A minor Quartet on the gramophone, and I find it quite inexhaustible to study. There is a sort of heavenly, or at least more than human gaiety, about some of his later things which one imagines might come to oneself as the fruit of reconciliation and relief after immense suffering; I should like to get something of that into verse before I die.”
T.S. Eliot, letter to Stephen Spender, March 1931
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The Busch Quartet plays the third movement of Beethoven’s A Minor Quartet, Op. 132, recorded in 1937:
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