After Volumes IV and III of the series with Mozart’s complete string quartets appeared as Henle Urtext editions in early 2017 and 2019 respectively, Mozart expert Wolf-Dieter Seiffert now presents Volume II ╩ in full score and individual parts. Included are the ''Early Viennese Quartets'' from 1773, K. 168╩173. Entries in the autograph manuscript by the composer’s father Leopold, however, suggest that the ordering of the six works into a unified series of quartets was his doing. In his preface,