Prince Nikolaj (Nicolaas) Borisovich Golitsyn or Galitzin (s) (Saint Petersburg, 1794 - 1866) was a gifted Russian cellist from the Russian family Golitsyn and a great admirer of Beethoven. He is known as Beethoven's motto and as the Galitzin Quartet's denominator.
Golitsyn corresponded with Beethoven and turned in 1822 with a quartet request to Beethoven, who had no longer composed for quartet since 1810. Beethoven probably also composed a quartet without this assignment: he wrote a quartet writing in the spring of 1822. Beethoven accepted 50 dukes of Golitsyn, but he had to call him in 1824 before Beethoven went to work. / p>
Golitsyn heard at the Missa Solemnis subscribers and would organize the first performance in St. Petersburg. Golitsyn will hear and speak the Schuppanzigh quartet, who had just been to Russia on tour. The new second violinist in that quartet Karl Holz became very fond of Beethoven. That also brought the quartet form to Beethoven's attention again.
There is no thematic link between the so-called Galitzin quartets (namely: opus 127, 130 and 132). There are two of them in the ABC quartet.
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