A longtime audience favorite—the Miami String Quartet, who made their Festival debut in 1998—returns to play Haydn’s stately late-18th-century Emperor Quartet (written for the last Holy Roman Emperor) as well as the Austro-Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff’s fiery early 20th-century G-Major String Quartet, which is sometimes called his Quartet No. 0.
HAYDN String Quartet in C Major, Hob. III:77 (Op. 76, No. 3), Emperor
SCHULHOFF String Quartet in G Major, Op. 25
Approximate length: 1 hour