<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0PhGwX_0vztzgDt00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0PhGwX_0vztzgDt00" width="432" height="522" ></figure><p>Every chamber music lover knows that Beethoven wrote a set of three string quartets in 1806 for Count Razumovsky, the Russian ambassador in Vienna.</p><p>Razumovsky employed a house quartet, led by Beethoven’s friend Ignaz Schuppanzigh (see my book Why Beethoven for more).</p><p>But Beethoven was not the only composer to accept a Razumovsky commission.</p><p>There was a violist called Franz Weiss (1784-1830) who composed a pair of quartets. Nobody’s ever heard of them. Now Canada’s Eybler Quartet have recorded them. Out next month.</p></div></body>

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The other Razumovskys

Every chamber music lover knows that Beethoven wrote a set of three string quartets in 1806 for Count Razumovsky, the Russian ambassador in Vienna. Razumovsky employed a house quartet, led by Beethoven’s friend Ignaz Schuppanzigh (see my book Why Beethoven for more). But Beethoven was not the only composer...

The other Razumovskys

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