This book is a guide to Mozart's six most famous string quartets, dedicated to his friend, Joseph Haydn. In addition to providing a full synopsis of each quartet this book examines the music in relation to Mozart's earlier quartets, considers the genesis of these six pieces and charts their reception through a broad range of sources: letters and diary entries, contemporary criticism and early biographies.
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This book is a guide to Mozart's six most famous string quartets, dedicated to his friend, Joseph Haydn. In addition to providing a full synopsis of each quartet this book examines the music in relation to Mozart's earlier quartets, considers the genesis of these six pieces and charts their reception through a broad range of sources: letters and diary entries, contemporary criticism and early biographies.
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Mozart's first string quartet, K.80 in G, was completed at an inn in the northern Italian village of Lodi on 15 March 1770, 'at 7 o'clock in the evening' according to an annotation on the autograph manuscript. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chromatic theme, exposition material, invertible counterpoint, first violin, dominant pedal, minor quartet, second violin, opening theme, sonata form, second subject, classic music Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Mozart's first string quartet, K.80 in G, was completed at an inn in the northern Italian village of Lodi on 15 March 1770, 'at 7 o'clock in the evening' according to an annotation on the autograph manuscript. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chromatic theme, exposition material, invertible counterpoint, first violin, dominant pedal, minor quartet, second violin, opening theme, sonata form, second subject, classic music Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Wiener Zeitung, Artaria Comp, Leopold Mozart, Joseph Haydn New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Haydn and the Classical Variation (Studies in the History of Music) by Elaine R. Sisman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Mozart: Studies of the Autograph Scores by Alan Tyson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The String Quartets of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven: Studies of the Autograph Manuscripts (Isham Library Papers) by Christoph Wolff in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Sonata Forms (Revised Edition) by Charles Rosen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Mozart: A Life by Maynard Solomon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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