14/16 They used to meet frequently and everything in music was arranged for quartets just as now everything is arranged for piano duets. Some of Beethoven's sonatas were arranged in this form. The piano killed the quartet, and it is a great pity, for the quartet is the purest form of instrumental music. It is the first form--the fountain of Hippocrene. Now instrumental music drinks from every cup and the result is that many times it seems drunk. |