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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Early String Quartets (Nos. 1​-​6, K. 80 & K. 155​-​159)

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String Quartet No. 1 in G Major, K. 80 (K. 73f) I. Adagio 06:34
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String Quartet No. 1 in G Major, K. 80 (K. 73f) II. Allegro 03:20
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String Quartet No. 1 in G Major, K. 80 (K. 73f) III. Minuetto 03:22
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String Quartet No. 1 in G Major, K. 80 (K. 73f) IV. Rondo 02:25
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String Quartet No. 2 in D Major, K. 155 (K. 134a) I. [Allegro] 03:41
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String Quartet No. 2 in D Major, K. 155 (K. 134a) II. Andante 04:04
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String Quartet No. 2 in D Major, K. 155 (K. 134a) III. Molto allegro 01:27
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String Quartet No. 3 in G Major, K. 156 (K. 134b) I. Presto 02:51
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String Quartet No. 3 in G Major, K. 156 (K. 134b) II. Adagio 06:09
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String Quartet No. 3 in G Major, K. 156 (K. 134b) III. Tempo di minuetto 04:01
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String Quartet No. 4 in C Major, K. 157 I. [Allegro] 05:29
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String Quartet No. 4 in C Major, K. 157 II. Andante 05:33
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String Quartet No. 4 in C Major, K. 157 III. Presto 01:53
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String Quartet No. 5 in F Major, K. 158 I. Allegro 03:28
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String Quartet No. 5 in F Major, K. 158 II. Andante un poco allegretto 06:00
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String Quartet No. 5 in F Major, K. 158 III. Tempo di minuetto 06:10
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String Quartet No. 6 in B Flat Major, K. 159 I. Andante 05:07
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String Quartet No. 6 in B Flat Major, K. 159 II. Allegro 05:33
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String Quartet No. 6 in B Flat Major, K. 159 III. Rondo. Allegretto grazioso 02:38
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In a letter dated 28 October 1772, Leopold Mozart wrote: “At this very moment, to relieve his boredom, our son is in the process of writing a ‘quatro’”. In fact, when the young Wolfgang Amadeus ‘amused’ himself by composing what we now call his first 13 quartets, from 1770 to 1773, a period during which he made three trips to Italy and one to Vienna, he never certainly does not claim to develop a genre that is not yet defined as such.

It must be said that these explorations were conducted even before the appearance of the first ‘delivery’ of Haydn, the Quartets Op. 20 known as ‘Sun Quartets’ and which created a sensation. The Italian coloring of these first Mozart’s quartets is obvious, whether it is the very first Lodi Quartet K. 80, imbued with the influence of Sammartini and his Concertini a quattro, as for the following ones, written in Milan (‘Milanese Quartets’).

Awards: 4* by Le Monde de la Musique, 5 by Diapason

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released January 1, 1999

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Recorded in Prague, April 9-11, 1999

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