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