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This is a list of string quartets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.. String Quartet No. 1 in G major, K. 80/73f; String Quartet No. 2 in D major, K. 155/134a; String Quartet No. 3 in G major, K. 156 (K. 134b)
String Quartet No. 2 (Mozart) String Quartet No. 14 (Mozart) String Quartet No. 15 (Mozart) String Quartet No. 16 (Mozart) String Quartet No. 17 (Mozart)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) was a prolific composer who wrote in many genres. Perhaps his best-admired works can be found within the categories of operas, piano concertos, piano sonatas, symphonies, string quartets, and string quintets.
The quartets were published in a set as Mozart's Opus 10 in Vienna, 1785. Mozart arranged the six quartets in the order of composition, except for reversing the order of K. 428 and K. 458. String Quartet No. 14 in G major, ("Spring"), K. 387, Op. 10, No. 1 (31 December 1782) String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K. 421/417b, Op. 10, No. 2 (17 June ...
The six string quartets, K. 168–173, were composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in late 1773 in Vienna. These are popularly known as the Viennese Quartets . Mozart may have hoped to have them published at the time, but they were published only posthumously by Johann André in 1801 as Mozart's Op. 94.
The Milanese Quartets, K. 155–160, are a set of six string quartets composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in late 1772 and early 1773 when he was sixteen and seventeen years old. They are called 'Milanese' because Mozart composed them in Milan while he was working on his opera Lucio Silla .
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's String Quartet No. 17 in B-flat major, K. 458, nicknamed "The Hunt", is the fourth of the Quartets dedicated to Haydn. It was completed in 1784. [1] It is in four movements: Allegro vivace assai; Menuetto and Trio. Moderato; Adagio, in E-flat major; Allegro assai; Neither Mozart nor Artaria (the publisher) called this ...
Detail of Lange's 1782–83 Mozart portrait. The String Quartet No. 16 in E-flat major, K. 428/421b, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1783. This is the third of the Haydn Quartets, a set of six string quartets he wrote during his first few years in Vienna and later dedicated to Joseph Haydn.