String Quartets Volume 1

Italian Quartets, Salzburg Divertimenti

pocket score

Edited by Seiffert, Wolf-Dieter
Setting: String Quartet
Instrumentation: 2 Violins, Viola and Violoncello
Period: Classic
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN7120
Other reference: 7120
ISMN: 9790201871202
This volume brings together Mozart’s youthful attempts at this later so central genre of the string quartet: the astonishing ''Lodi Quartet'' K. 80 by the only fourteen-year-old composer, the three ''Quartet-Divertimenti'' K. 136╩138 which are also readily played by chamber orchestras, and Mozart’s first true string-quartet cycle K. 155╩160 which was composed during his third (north-)Italian journey in 1772/73. Mozart’s cleanly written scores of all the compositions have been preserved so that t

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