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String Quartet No. 20 (Mozart)

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The String Quartet No. 20 in D major, K. 499, was written in 1786 in Vienna by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was published by – if not indeed written for – his friend Franz Anton Hoffmeister. Because of this, the quartet has acquired the nickname Hoffmeister. Hoffmeister had started issuing a series of chamber-music publications in 1785, including Mozart's K. 499 as well as Joseph Haydn's String Quartet No. 35, Op. 42.{{cite book|last1=Grave|first1=Floyd|last2=Grave|first2=Margaret G.|title=The String Quartets of Joseph Haydn|page=219|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KS85lr30qNYC|year=2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-517357-4}}

Structure

There are four movements:

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|Allegretto, in D major

|Menuetto: Allegretto, in D major, with a trio section in D minor

|Adagio, in G major

|Allegro, in D major

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This work, sandwiched between the six Haydn Quartets (1782–85) and the following three Prussian Quartets (1789–90), is often polyphonic in a way uncharacteristic of the earlier part of the classical music era. The menuetto and its trio give good examples of this in brief, with the brief irregular near-canon between first violin and viola in the second half of the main portion of the minuet, and the double imitations in the trio between the violins, and between the viola and cello.

See also

References

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Further reading

  • {{cite book|last=Einstein|first=Alfred|author-link=Alfred Einstein|editor-last1=Mendel|editor-first1=Arthur|editor-link1=Arthur Mendel|editor-last2=Broder|editor-first2=Nathan|title=Mozart, His Character, His Work|url=https://archive.org/details/mozarthischaract0000eins_n9b0|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=1st|year=1945|via=Internet Archive|ref=none}}
  • {{cite book|url=http://www.henle.de/media/foreword/7123.pdf|editor-last=Seiffert|editor-first=Wolf-Dieter|title=Mozart – String Quartets Volume: IV|publisher=G. Henle Verlag|year=2016|ismn=979-0-2018-7123-3|ref=none}}

External links

  • {{NMA|177|3|178|5|String Quartet No. 20}}
  • {{IMSLP|work=String Quartet No.20 in D major, K.499 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)|cname=String Quartet No. 20 in D major}}
  • [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_37764&index=6 Mozart's autograph of the Hoffmeister Quartet], British Library {{dead link|date=January 2024}}
  • {{cite web|url=https://www.earsense.org/article/Mozart-String-Quartet-in-D-Major-K-499-Hoffmeister/|access-date=23 January 2024|last=Christiansen|first=Kai|title=Program Note: Mozart, String Quartet in D major, K. 499 "Hoffmeister"|publisher=Earsense Chamberbase|date=26 March 2017|ref=none}}
  • {{YouTube|vc6ZzTPCk7s|String Quartet in D major, K. 499 (video)}}, Philharmonia Quartet Berlin 2014
  • {{cite web|url=http://www.jmc.co.il/musicfile.asp?mid=9|url-status=dead|title=Free recording|author=Jerusalem Quartet|date=1996|publisher=Jerusalem Music Centre|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060831220648/http://www.jmc.co.il/musicfile.asp?mid=9|archive-date=31 August 2006|ref=none}}

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