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Franz Anton Hoffmeister. String Quartets, op. 14. Aviv Quartet. Naxos 8.55952, 2003.

Though Franz Anton Hoffmeister was well known and admired in his day as a composer (especially of flute music), it is as a music publisher that he is best known in this century. Hoffmeister published first editions by Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph Haydn, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, among other notables. Though his chamber works for flute are still performed and recorded regularly, his string quartets--of which he wrote a substantial number--have been somewhat neglected. In fact, as of March 2004 it appears that this is the only commercially available recording dedicated to ...

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