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Mozart String Quartet no. 5 in F major, K. 158

March 5, 2017March 5, 2017 Fugue for Thought

performed by the Amadeus Quartet, or below by the Festetics Quartet Mozart’s fifth string quartet was written in 1773, the fourth of the Milanese quartets, as they are called, for where they were composed. Like all of the Milanese quartets, … Continue reading Mozart String Quartet no. 5 in F major, K. 158

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Mozart String Quartet no. 4 in C, K.157

February 4, 2017February 4, 2017 Fugue for Thought

Mozart’s fourth string quartet is the third of the six so-called Milanese quartets (no. 1 not included in that set). Like all the Milanese quartets, it’s in three movements, and like most of them, contains a middle movement in the … Continue reading Mozart String Quartet no. 4 in C, K.157

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W. A. Mozart String Quartet No. 3 in G, K. 156

August 27, 2016August 6, 2016 Fugue for Thought

performed by the Amadeus Quartet and movement 2 and movement 3 respectively, or in a complete performance here (with the score) that is also very nice And now we’ll jump back more than two hundred years before last week’s quartet … Continue reading W. A. Mozart String Quartet No. 3 in G, K. 156

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W. A. Mozart String Quartet No. 2 in D major, K. 155

May 8, 2016March 20, 2016 Fugue for Thought

performed by the Amadeus Quartet, or below, in an echoey recording by the Festetics Quartet We are now into the ‘Milanese quartets’, a true cycle of six quartets the young Mozart wrote in Milan between 1772 and 1773. These Milanese quartets … Continue reading W. A. Mozart String Quartet No. 2 in D major, K. 155

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