Opus 2 No 4 Adagio at 9:37 is, so far, Haydn's longest string quartet movement. The music and melody is inspiring and beautiful. Unlike anything before it, the movement calls for something grand such as this image from the Hubble telescope.
This Hubble photograph captures an area in the Omega or Swan Nebula. The patterns in this image are created by gases that have been illuminated by ultraviolet radiation. The process that created this storm is widely violent and almost incomprehensible. Haydn pulls us back, giving us a reflective space to consider the awe of space.
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