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² Clive Brown, ‘Louis Spohr’, Grove Music Online (accessed 12 July 2023).

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¹⁰ The secondary theme of the first movement of Op. 45 No. 2 is an exemplary expression of the waltz topic (bars 41–84). In addition to the 6/4 time signature and the melody in the first violin part, it is the rhythm of three quarter notes followed by a dotted minim in the cello part that evokes the 6-beat units characteristic of the basic waltz step. See McKee, Eric, Decorum of the Minuet, Delirium of the Waltz. A Study of Dance-Music Relations in ¾ Time (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012), 12Google Scholar.

¹¹ McKee, Decorum of the Minuet, 3–4.

¹² An exception is the recent paper by Erica Buurman in which she looked at Beethoven's late quartets through this lens, ‘Beethoven and the Deutsche: Dance Types and Popular Melodies from the Ritterballett to the Late Quartets’, paper delivered at the Internationaler Kongress der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung / International Congress of the Society for Music Research, 28 September 2021.

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¹⁴ November, Beethoven's Theatrical Quartets, 12.

¹⁵ The accompanying rhythm (minim plus crochet rest in the cello, with quaver rest and five quavers in the second violin and viola parts) is somewhat less characteristic of the waltz topic than in the first movement of Op. 45 No. 2.

¹⁶ Louis Spohr's Autobiography, Translated from the German (London: Longman, Green, Roberts, 1865): 191–2. On the balls held during the Congress of Vienna, see Buurman, The Viennese Ballroom in the Age of Beethoven, 148–69.

¹⁷ In the ideology of early nineteenth-century German-speaking writers, the string quartet was associated with the miniature paintings displayed in the cabinets of aristocrats (while the symphony was associated with the painting of panoramas). The metaphor emphasized both the refinement and richness of detail required to write a quartet and a private, elitist listening practice. See November, Nancy, ‘Theater Piece and Cabinetstück: Nineteenth-Century Visual Ideologies of the String Quartet’, Music in Art 29 (2004): 135–50Google Scholar.

¹⁸ McKee, Decorum of the Minuet, 11–12.

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