Mozart: The 'Haydn' QuartetsThe six string quartets dedicated to his friend Joseph Haydn represent a turning point in Mozart's compositional development. In addition to providing a full synopsis of each quartet this book examines the music in relation to Mozart's earlier quartets, considers the genesis of the six 'Haydn' quartets through close examination of the autograph revisions and looks at contemporary eighteenth-century analytical models. John Irving also charts the reception of the quartets, drawing upon a broad range of sources: Mozart's letters and diary entries, early newspaper reports, harmony/compositional textbooks, contemporary criticism and early biographies. |
Contents
Mozarts early quartets | 5 |
Genesis of the Haydn quartets | 12 |
The autograph | 14 |
Textual revisions | 15 |
Steps to publication | 19 |
The individual quartets a synopsis | 25 |
K387 in G | 26 |
K421 in D minor | 33 |
Some theoretical perspectives | 61 |
Topicality in the first movement of K458 | 68 |
Reception of the Haydn quartets | 73 |
Early critical reactions | 74 |
Early nineteenthcentury narrativity | 75 |
Fetis and the Adagio of K465 | 76 |
Twentiethcentury approaches | 78 |
Mozarts Dedication Page 1785 | 85 |
K458 in B flat | 37 |
K428 in E flat | 44 |
K464 in A | 49 |
K465 in C | 54 |
Notes | 86 |
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Adagio Allegro Andante Artaria articulation autograph bass beginning at bar Biog cadence cadential cello chasse chord chordal chromatic chromaticism classical Cliff Eisen coda composer composition contrapuntal contrast counterpoint countertheme crotchet Deutsch development section dialogue double-bar edition eighteenth-century ensemble example figure flat Forkel's four-bar fugato fugue G major G minor harmonic imitative imperfect cadence instance inventio invertible legato Leipzig Leopold Leopold Mozart London main theme manuscript Marc Evan melodic decoration ment Minuet modulation motif movement of K.458 Mozart's Haydn octave opening theme passage pattern phrase polyphony published quaver recapitulation repeated repetition reprise rhetorical rhythm rhythmic RISM second subject second violin second-subject group semiquaver sequential Sieber six quartets slow movement solo sonata form stretto String Quartets style subdominant Symphony texture thematic theme at bar theme bars tion tonal tonic topic Torricella transition triadic Trio upbeat variation Vienna viola violin and viola W. A. Mozart Wiener Zeitung Wolfgang