 | Mozart's authorship of these quartets is debatable. See below, Comments. |
Performances
Sheet Music
Parts
Quartet No.1 in A major
⇒ 4 more: Violin 2 • Viola • Cello • Covers & Title Page
Quartet No.4 in E♭ major
⇒ 4 more: Violin 2 • Viola • Cello • Covers, Title Page, Catalog Extract
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General Information
| Work Title
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Les Quatuors de Milan
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| Alternative. Title
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The Milanese Quartets
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| Composer
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
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| I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.
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None [force assignment]
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| Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's
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4 pieces
- String Quartet in A major
- String Quartet in B-flat major
- String Quartet in C major
- String Quartet in E-flat major
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| Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.
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1772-73 ca.
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| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period
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Classical
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| Piece Style
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Classical
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| Instrumentation
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2 violins, viola, cello
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Navigation etc.
- The 4 quartets in question were recorded by Köchel in his appendix IV nos.210-214 as of doubtful authenticity, not having seen them. His knowledge of their existence stems from a hand-written catalog of Aloys Fuchs (1799-1853), a collector of then unedited works. These 4 were consulted at the time of this 1932 edition in the then called Preussische Staatsbiobliothek in an oblong folio dated 1830, containing 13 quartets in all. The prominent Mozart researcher Georges de St.Foix who examined them thoroughly is said to have pronounced them genuine and probably composed about 1772/3 at Bolzano or Milan. Wollheims's edition follows Aloys Fuchs's copy strictly apart from some playing instructions that are in parentheses.
- Grove Music still lists them as "spurious".
The quartets are listed as K Anh.210-213, not 214. The quartets have now been attributed to the Saxon composer Joseph Schuster (1748-1812).Themes to the C Major quartet were discovered by the researcher Richard Englander among Schuster's manuscripts. The quartet itself was conserved in the music archives of the Antonian Chappel of Padua. For a complete description of how and why the quartets have been attributed to Schuster, see the jacket notes by Paolo Cattelan to the Pan Classic CD 10379 on which all six of Schuster's quartets, these four plus two others, were recorded.