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The String Quartet No. 16 in E flat major, K. 428/421b, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. This is the third of the Haydn Quartets, a set of six string quartets he wrote during his first few years in Vienna and later dedicated to Joseph Haydn.

It is in four movements:

I. Allegro non troppo
II. Andante con moto
III. Menuetto & Trio
IV. Allegro vivace

The first movement is highly chromatic, with the chromaticized bridge theme in the exposition being one of several examples, the end of the exposition being another.

The slow movement "invokes ... the slow movement of Haydn's Op. 20 No. 1. The ostentatious dissonances of its opening almost have an antique flavour, caused by the collision of semitonal ascents and descents, and this strongly suggests the opening subject of the first movement, so surprisingly isolated there." Other commentators hear it as pointing forward to Johannes Brahms.

Throughout the third movement Mozart "makes use of a pedal point in the bass, thus giving the music an entrancing rustic effect." The last movement "can best be described as being an abridged rondo form."

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Quartet No. 16 in E-Flat Major, K. 428: IV. Allegro Vivace Assai

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K. 421/417b is the second of the Quartets dedicated to Haydn and the only one of the set in a minor key. 

Though undated in the autograph, it is believed to have been completed in 1783, while his wife Constanze Mozart was in labour with her first child Raimund. Constanze stated that the rising string figures in the second movement corresponded to her cries from the other room. 

It is in four movements:

Allegro moderato
Andante (F major)
Menuetto and Trio (the latter in D major). Allegretto
Allegretto ma non troppo

The first movement is characterized by a sharp contrast between the aperiodicity of the first subject group, characterized by Arnold Schoenberg as "prose-like," and the "wholly periodic" second subject group. In the Andante and the Minuet, "normal expectations of phraseology are confounded."

The main part of the Minuet is in minuet sonata form,[ while "the contrasting major-mode Trio ... is ... almost embarrassingly lightweight on its own ... [but] makes a wonderful foil to the darker character of the Minuet."The last movement is a set of variations.

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Quartet No. 15 in D-Minor, K. 421: I. Allegro Moderato

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The String Quartet No. 14 in G major, K. 387, nicknamed the "Spring" quartet, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1782 while in Vienna. In the composer's inscription on the title page of the autograph score is stated: "li 31 di decembre 1782 in vienna". The work was perhaps edited in 1783. Wikipedia


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Quartet No. 14 in G-Major, K. 387: III. Andante Cantabile

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The String Quartet No. 14 in G major, K. 387, nicknamed the "Spring" quartet, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1782 while in Vienna. In the composer's inscription on the title page of the autograph score is stated: "li 31 di decembre 1782 in vienna". The work was perhaps edited in 1783. Wikipedia

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Quartet No. 14 in G-Major, K. 387: II. Menuetto, Allegro

Ponchielli. Dance of the Hours arranged for string quartet. Download PDF sheet music at <a href="http://www.musicforstrings.com/en/string-quartet-sheet-music/121-ponchielli-dance-hours-gioconda-string-quartet.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.musicforstrings.com</a>


Ponchielli. Dance of the Hours. String quartet arrangement

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Expressions: Haydn, Szymanowski, Chopin

Sonata in A-Flat Major, Hob. XVI/46 - II. Adagio

Haydn - Sonata in A-flat major Hob. XVI: 46 - II. Adagio

New England Conservatory students Zenas Hsu, Yina Tong, Livan perform Tchaikovsky's Trio for Piano and Strings in A minor, Op. 50. Recroded live in Jordan Hall, Boston, February 14, 2013

Tchaikovsky: Trio for Piano and Strings in A minor - Variazione VI  Tempo di valse

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - String Quartet No. 21 in D major, K. 575 'Prussian No. 1' - I. Allegretto

Bach: BWV 972 - 2. Larghetto - 2013.06.02

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