HENLE MOZART String Quartets Volume 1 Salzburg Divertimenti Italian Quartets
- Catalog #: 1120
- WD SEIFFERT
- STRING QUARTETS
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
String Quartets Volume I (Salzburg Divertimenti, Italian Quartets)
Wolf-Dieter Seiffert (Editor)
Urtext Edition, Parts, paperbound
Pages 187 (XII+54+IV+43+III+35+III+33), Size 23,5 x 31,0 cm
Weight 784 g
HN 1120 · ISMN 979-0-2018-1120-8
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 the edition stands on a secure foundation. In his informative commentary, Wolf-Dieter Seiffert, the experienced Mozart editor at G. Henle Publishers, devotes a separate, comprehensive explanatory section to the well-known articulation problem “dot or wedge”. The Armida Quartet provided artistic input for this edition.
