Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - String Quartet No. 20, K. 499 [With score]

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  • Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
  • -Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 - 5 December 1791)
    -Performers: Amadeus Quartet
    String Quartet No. 20 in D Major, K. 499 "Hoffmeister", written in 1786
    00:07 - I. Allegretto
    07:24 - II. Menuetto. Allegretto
    10:40 - III. Adagio
    19:25 - IV. Allegro
    Between 1782 and 1785, Mozart composed six string quartets, which were subsequently published late in 1785 with a dedication to Joseph Haydn. They represent the pinnacle of Mozart's contribution to the form, a group of works that not only solve the problems of this difficult medium, but which also represent his tribute to the pioneering quartets of his friend and colleague. Thereafter, Mozart would compose only four more string quartets, including this one, subsequently turning his attention to the string quintet.
    This isolated D major Quartet (scored for the normal disposition of two violins, viola and cello) was entered in his own thematic catalogue on August 19, 1786, less than two months after the premiere of Le nozze di Figaro. It owes its nickname to the Viennese publisher Franz Anton Hoffmeister, who first issued the quartet in the same year it was composed. Nothing is known of the circumstances of its composition, although it has been suggested that it was commissioned by Hoffmeister, who was also a friend of Mozart's.
    Shortly before the composer's death in December, 1791, the quartet was the subject of a review in the journal of the German Philharmonic Society. The reviewer, who was also considering the Piano Quartet in E flat, K. 493, notes that "Both these quartets are written with that fire of the imagination and that correctness, which long since won for Herr M. the reputation of one of the best composers in Germany. The first [the string quartet] consists of four, the second of only three movements, and even the Minuet in the former is composed with an ingenuity (being interwoven with canonic imitations) that one not infrequently finds wanting in other such compositions." It is the Minuet (the second movement) that has subsequently excited particular comment from Mozart's biographers, being described by H. C. Robbins Landon as "one of the most original in eighteenth century music" and by Alfred Einstein as "unique." While the quartet is generally recognized as being less complex than the six "Haydn" Quartets, it remains a work of great beauty, with an Adagio of great profundity, and a final Allegro which treads the ambiguous line between tragedy and comedy that so often characterizes Mozart's later works.
    [allmusic.com]

Комментарии • 75

  • @paulina3201
    @paulina3201 8 месяцев назад +6

    I’ve got it why Schoenberg said that he learned how write quartets from Mozart, who had known the musical form as only Bach had, and no one else. Mozart can accommodate a huge number of musical thoughts and their transformations into an enclosed space, which gives the impression of an incredibly intense form. Does it seem like it's Baroque?! And yet: he does not develop the main theme on which everything else depends, but he unites many themes into a perfect unity, it seems as if the music generates itself again and again. And for this reason, his music gives the impression of mysterious abundance, sophistication, eclipsing classicism with its global concept of development - homophony.

    • @Whatismusic123
      @Whatismusic123 5 месяцев назад

      Schönberg never learned to write quartets, and he certainly didn't learn it from mozart 🤣 that incompetent sack of garbage couldn't learn anything other than to be a fraud and pretend to be a great composer.

    • @Whatismusic123
      @Whatismusic123 3 месяца назад

      Schoenberg is a lying hack.

    • @Whatismusic123
      @Whatismusic123 3 месяца назад

      Schoenberg learned nothing. If he had, he wouldn't have been as incompetent as he is and always has been.

  • @Pawel_Malecki
    @Pawel_Malecki 4 года назад +21

    Gods, that moment at 3:02 when you are not sure if it's Alberti bass or a hectic melody anymore. Wolfie is deceiving the expectations so masterfully there.

    • @YodoJakamodo
      @YodoJakamodo 3 месяца назад

      It is a veiled chromatic descent (C-B-A-G-F#-F) and on top of it is also a canonic imitation of the violin line that begins in bar 107. After Mozart's intense study of Bach's music, his own music also became wonderfully complex in a counterpointal sense.

  • @callofduty3807
    @callofduty3807 6 месяцев назад +2

    Ah, General Burkhalter, what a pleasure to see you sir.

    • @MrRsreyes
      @MrRsreyes 4 месяца назад +1

      Play the record Hogan!

  • @DJDennyRay
    @DJDennyRay 4 года назад +16

    This is the one Col Klink’s quartet plays on Hogan’s Heroes.
    Yeah, yeah, I know...but that WAS what brought me to this beautiful piece.

    • @morpheus1717
      @morpheus1717 3 года назад +1

      Also heard it from there. Took me forever to find this piece

    • @user-jk7mq2xu9u
      @user-jk7mq2xu9u 3 года назад

      Из них в этом где можно не е не знаю 🤷‍♂️ уснул только на следующий год я на связи ты. Ф

  • @laurenth7187
    @laurenth7187 11 месяцев назад +2

    This is one of the greatest pieces ever, and you missed it. It's better than all other strings composition by Mozart, and only the N° 23 is as good, while less moving.

  • @donaldgoodell7675
    @donaldgoodell7675 4 года назад +2

    This Quartet in D-major by Mozart was completed on 19 August 1786 - whilst Thomas Attwood was up to his eyes in Fuxian Counterpoint Studies (6-days s week at 3:30pm) and was offered to the Viennese publisher Hoffmeister-it sits in between the 6-Quartets dedicated to Joseph Haydn & the 3-Quartets commission’d by Frederic Wilhelm II King of Prussia - and is full of Fuxian Contrapuntal games & nuances no doubt of interest to M.’s young English pupil...

  • @billguyan9626
    @billguyan9626 4 года назад +6

    This, along with Beethoven's 12th Quartet (Op 127) is my favourite quartet among many I appreciate much. As a teenager I bought it played by the Heutling Quartet on HMV many years ago - sublime.
    I have to say that despite the Amadeus Quartet's lofty reputation concerning their dedication to Mozart's Quartets (I have their complete set on Deutsche Grammophon) I have never been fond of them.

  • @Whatismusic123
    @Whatismusic123 5 месяцев назад +2

    what an amazing minuet

    • @Otttisthecow
      @Otttisthecow 4 месяца назад

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    • @Otttisthecow
      @Otttisthecow 4 месяца назад

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    • @Otttisthecow
      @Otttisthecow 4 месяца назад

      Why them Ebendurrrr trout you go favorite? it becuhssss you is a bluey fan.

    • @Otttisthecow
      @Otttisthecow 4 месяца назад

      Why them Ebendurrrr trout you go favorite? it becuhssss you is a bluey fan.

    • @Otttisthecow
      @Otttisthecow 4 месяца назад

      Why them Ebendurrrr trout you go favorite? it becuhssss you is a bluey fan.

  • @tj-ze4kq
    @tj-ze4kq 4 года назад +3

    14:46~15:05 good

  • @johnchessant3012
    @johnchessant3012 Год назад +1

    8:43 Ferris Bueller

  • @DressedForDrowning
    @DressedForDrowning 5 лет назад

    Very good! Thank you :-)

  • @TimondeNood
    @TimondeNood 4 года назад

    Thanks!!

  • @christkoolen4226
    @christkoolen4226 2 года назад

    ik ben een strijkkwartet kwijt van mozart. gespeeld door sine nomine ( in G )

  • @vojtechhyanek1341
    @vojtechhyanek1341 4 года назад +1

    Ty vole

  • @randomguy5052
    @randomguy5052 Год назад +1

    7:25

  • @emilyho5075
    @emilyho5075 2 года назад

    for self 7:25

  • @user-jh8rx5ne8t
    @user-jh8rx5ne8t Год назад

    23:55

  • @letsschubertiad1966
    @letsschubertiad1966 3 года назад +3

    Why does forte sound so aggresively?

  • @ValzainLumivix
    @ValzainLumivix 3 года назад

    19:33

  • @pianistafabriciomoreira1595
    @pianistafabriciomoreira1595 4 года назад

    This information should be corrected:
    String Quartet No. 20 in D Major, K. 464 "Hoffmeister", written in 1786

  • @coryfields4321
    @coryfields4321 Год назад

    Love the piece… NOT a fan of the performance

  • @joshuahobbs9109
    @joshuahobbs9109 5 месяцев назад

    7:25

  • @H28545
    @H28545 10 месяцев назад +1

    7:25

  • @therealrealludwigvanbeethoven
    @therealrealludwigvanbeethoven Год назад

    2:20