String Quintet No. 5 (Mozart)

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The String Quintet No. 5 in D major, K. 593 is written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Like all of Mozart's string quintets, this work is a "viola quintet" in that is scored for string quartet and an extra viola (two violins, two violas and cello).

[edit] Movements

The work is in standard four movement form:

According to the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe [1], the finale was printed, and known for some time, in an inauthentic edition, in which its main theme, originally a descending chromatic scale fragment, was replaced in most of its appearances in the movement by a more complicated zigzag ("Zickzackform") themelet.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus; Ernst Fritz Schmid, ed. (1991). Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke: in Verbindung mit die Mozartstädten, Augsburg, Salzburg und Wien: Werkausgabe in 20 Bänden. Serie VIII: Kammermusik. Band 19: Streichquintette. Kritischer Bericht. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 74. ISBN 3761859104. 
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