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Mozart: The 6 "Haydn" String Quartets (On Period Instruments)

3/29/2024, 24 Tracks, 3:10:45

Featuring

  • Micaela Comberti
  • Simon Standage
  • Trevor Jones
  • Jennifer Ward Clarke
  • The Salomon Quartet
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Instruments

The violinists Simon Standage and Micaela Comberti play instruments made by David Rubio in 1987, crafted after Stradivarius models.

Source: Booklet

Notable Performances

The six 'Haydn' Quartets were first performed in January 1785 in the presence of Joseph Haydn, who told Mozart's father that his son was 'the greatest composer known to me'.

Source: Booklet

Instruments

The cellist Jennifer Ward Clarke plays a William Forster cello, made in London in 1791.

Source: Booklet

Historical Context

Mozart was challenged by Joseph Haydn's recently published Opus 33 Quartets, which Haydn described as composed in 'a new and special way', featuring equal musical argument among the four instruments.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Mozart dedicated these six string quartets to Joseph Haydn, his 'most celebrated and very dear friend', acknowledging them as 'the fruit of a long and very laborious effort'.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

In these quartets, Mozart experimented with various techniques, including monothematicism, chromatic enrichment of harmony, complex harmonic progressions, and integrating fugal techniques with sonata principles.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Mozart's six 'Haydn' Quartets took him nearly three years of sustained hard work, a surprising effort given his reputation for 'divine facility'.

Source: Booklet

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