I have Apostel's Op. 7 on CD and find it 'listenable', moreso than other works from the Schönberg-Webern circle. Forgive me for making a small, perhaps trivial -- yea pedantic -- point:
These three discs include all sorts of interviews with Apostel and his family (auf Deutsch), and most of his works for string quartet (including the 18 Variations, not listed in Grove), but these are not the COMPLETE works for string quartet, since they omit his unpublished Quartet in D minor, written when he was 25 years old.
"He who is not in some measure a pedant, though he may be a wise, cannot be a very happy man." -Wm. Hazlitt
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