Talk:String Quintet, Op. 104 (Beethoven)

Appearance in An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
Reverting my inclusion of the reference to "An Equal Music" by Vikram Seth seems more than a little strange. No serious justification for the reversion was given. The description of the novel as "pop culture" is incorrect and given without any argument. Even were it possible to construct a reasoned argument for designating the novel as "pop culture", the prohibition against such an inclusion does not seem reasonable. I have not yet reverted the reversion by DavidRF but it certainly seems a perfectly reasonable thing to do. Why should the page on the novel include a reference to the Beethoven quintet but the page on the quintet not be permitted a reference to the novel? A link in both places, to the other, makes more sense. --Mark R. Diamond

I've removed: "The quintet features prominently in 'An Equal Music', the novel by Vikram Seth." from this article - this really has no place here, especially in the main discussion - it would, of course, be very necessary in a page on Vikram Seth. The reference here is spurious at best. HammerFilmFan (talk) 22:38, 14 October 2010 (UTC)HammerFilmFan

Noteablity of this composition prior to "An Equal Music"
If Vikram Seth's introduction to the concept album for "An Equal Music" is to be believed this Quintet was not well known for much of the 20th C. The relevant text is:

"It gives me particular pleasure to introduce one piece of music to listeners. Several readers, including some musicians have written to me after reading An Equal Music, asking whether Beethoven's String Quintet in C minor, Op. 104 really exists - as if I would have had the gall to invent not merely a fictive work but an opus number as well! It is an obscure work, but it does indeed exist..."

Seth, Vikram, "A Note From The Author", Vikram Seth, An Equal Music:Music from the Best Selling Novel, DECCA, 2000, p.7

The notes on the back of the CD claim that the recording of the Op. 104 Quintet made for the album was the first recording made for CD.

This might be a worthwhile aspect of the Quintet to study and add to the article.

Graham1973 (talk) 02:03, 11 March 2014 (UTC)