Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - String Quartet No. 23, K. 590 [With score]
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- -Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 - 5 December 1791)
-Performers: Alban Berg Quartet
String Quartet No. 23 in F-Major, K. 590, written in 1790 [Prussian Quartet III]
00:00 - I. Allegro moderato
08:46 - II. Andante
14:17 - III. Menuetto. Allegretto
18:05 - IV. Allegro
Mozart's final string quartet was to have been the third of six the composer intended to dedicate to King Frederick William II of Prussia, the cello-playing monarch whom Boccherini served as exclusive chamber musician from 1787 until the death of the king ten years later. Shortly after entering the F major Quartet in his thematic catalog in June, 1790, Mozart told Puchberg in a further letter that he had been "obliged" to give away the quartets "for a mere song in order to have cash in hand to meet my present difficulties." Along with its two companions, K. 590 has been generally regarded by commentators as being less successful than the great set of six "Haydn" quartets composed between 1782 and 1785. Artaria's advertisement for the "Prussian" quartets describes them as "concertante quartets," thus paying due recognition to the prominence of their cello parts, which were obviously designed to give Frederick William significance. Yet if the structure is frequently looser than in the more tightly organized "Haydn" quartets, there is much compensation in the skillful manner in which Mozart allows the royal cello discourse with its colleagues, a refinement the composer confessed to finding "troublesome" in execution. The customary four movements are an opening Allegro moderato, an affecting, valedictory Andante, Menuetto, and Allegro finale. From the first movement this piece is filled with aural miracles. Dialogues scurry about and return slightly altered, like double entendres uttered in one of Mozart's operas. At the movement's end, the coda restates the development, gracefully winds down, and ends on a witty high note. Mozart never specified whether the second movement is an Allegretto or an Andante. Alfred Einstein said of it: "It seems to mingle the bliss and sorrow of a farewell to life. How beautiful life has been! How sad! How brief!" The Menuetto is charged with ornamental appoggiaturas and contrary phrases. The finale is packed with wondrous devices, such as unexpected silences and intricate counterpoint. Listen closely in the last bars and you'll even hear a bagpipe-like drone.
[allmusic.com] - Hudba
00:00 - I. Allegro moderato
08:46 - II. Andante
14:17 - III. Menuetto. Allegretto
18:05 - IV. Allegro
Damon J.H.K. A
Lui.
18:55 & 21:38 how are Mozart's transitional sections always so incredible
Il minuetto e l ultimo movimento sono incredibili!!!
that specific descending motif of six semiquavers was used by L. van Beethoven in his Fourth piano concerto and as the main motif of the fugue in Hammerklavier's last movement.
Estos últimos cuartetos de Mozart son maravillosos.
So modern
These Late quartet are very beautiful, looking forward to the 6 Haydn quartet ....
Coming soon! :)
Dear Maestro J.H.K. , Thank you so much !!
Thanks so much for posting.
Thans for the comercials in the begining of the develoment
For those so-called "commentators" you refer in your notes for the video (excelent, by the way), who consider this quartet "less successful" than the Haydn Quartets, I recommend that they learn some music before saying silly things like those ones. This last quartet is a miracle, of invention, technique, inspiration, and points to late Beethoven and late Schubert in a lot of aspects (Schubert in the moving slow mouvement, Beethoven in the First and last mouvements).
It's not silly. Yes this quartet does point to Beethoven and Schubert in some ways and it is a wonderful quartet, but that doesn't mean it's as good as the "Haydn" quartets. If you want to talk about technique, nothing in the Prussian quartets matches the finale of the G major Haydn quartet. If you want to talk about invention, nothing in the Prussian quartets is as inventive as the harmonic recontextualization of the tone-row like opening of the Eb major Haydn quartet. As for inspiration, that's all a matter of opinion I guess, but accounts suggest that Mozart felt more inspired/proud while writing the Haydn quartets and he certainly spent more time on them, so we shouldn't be surprised that they turned out better. But of course, this doesn't mean the Prussian quartets are bad. They are wonderful. They simply rely more often on simple textures, like the one that occurs at 3:00 minutes in this video.
I don’t know if works of art can be evaluated solely based on the influence they have had on the works of subsequent and inferior artists
you care more about some vanity-based interpretation over how impactful or inventive a piece is, rather than more objectively how great of a composition it is. @@danielgrotz6599
Esecuzione stupenda di un monumento della produzione quartettistica di ogni tempo. Grazie a Damon per aver proposto anche la partitura.
Sono pienamente d'accordo con Te. Mi hai fatto venire i brividi con la parola "monumento", hai straragione.
Il primo tempo è molto bello, ma il secondo è stupefacente per contabilità e contrappunto allo stesso tempo.
Il terzo movimento è geniale, il VIOLONCELLO è da brividi!!
Il quarto ha tanto di quel contrappunto ed è complesso a tal punto da lasciare sbalorditi e attoniti!!!
@@salvatoremartella5397 cAntabilità.....sono perfettamente d'accordo con voi....nel finale mi gira la testa e mi perdo come in un complesso contrappunto bachiano....
0:37 my eyes might be tricking me, but I can't help seeing a treble clef standing on that cello part in an eighteenth century string quartet
It's an octave-down "false" treble clef. You will find this a lot in Mozart's and Beethoven's string quartets.
@@doublesharp4325 I know, Berlioz wrote about it in his instrumentation treatise. He told a treble clef only gets its "real pitches" after a tenor one, because it gives the sense of rising (idk). When not, it might be just to avoid the ledger lines
@@dacoconutnut9503 Kinda missleading. Why not just put the treble clef when the notes are played as high.
@@doublesharp4325 even in Bruckner!!
The last one :), yes thank you :)
0:46 Waldstein sonata
also some motives in the first movement resemble the main motives in Hammerklavier's last movement
Damn, it's been at least ten years since i've listened to these last quartets. (My old record by the Juilliard was pretty chewed up) Just unbelievable. I'm not sure if it's the music that brings a tear to my eye, or the FACT of its being. The symphonies, the choral works, the concertos, the quartets, and sonatas are simply polished gems. It's almost unfair that MO was so incredible. ha ha
Not sure about the sonatas. He was greater in orchestral music.
you forgot the operas!!!
5:24~42
20:03~15
20:43~57
22:52
Thank you, Damon for all that you do. Your added scores are very much appreciated. Can someone please tell me what "harmony" is implied in the dissonant 23rd measure? Seems like an inverted G minor. With a C it would be G G minor Add 4, but the C#? Is Mozart just pushing dissonance here to briefly ( and radically ) offset the strong diatonic Major key harmony of the piece?
I can't believe Mozart wrote this!
Why?
Ignorance
czcams.com/video/nkbdUjjfRTQ/video.html An Analysis of the incredible last movement of this quartet
Thank you very much!
Mozart non e' di questo pianeta!!!
Esecuzione splendida, ma non capisco il saltare il primo ritornello nel secondo tempo.
The third one tho 🥰😍 it's so amazing
Sorry, I neglected to specify the Andante Second Movement: 23rd measure - Seems like an inverted G minor. With a C it could be an inverted G minor Add 4, but the C# ?
You’re basically there. It’s a c# diminished seventh over a d pedal, which resolves to a D major harmony, the dominant of our secondary key, G major.
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That is some intense string writing. Incredible. The dissonance is sometimes unrelenting. This might have been written sometime in the 1840s considering......
Classical music like this is unlistenable on CZcams now. What's the point if it always gets interrupted by ads?
Listen to it on a computer with an ad-block!!!
or get youtube revanced on android
andante