String Quartet No. 21 (Mozart)

The String Quartet No. 21 in D major, K. 575, was written in June 1789 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It has acquired the nickname The Violet. It is the first of the Prussian Quartets.

There are four movements:

Allegretto, in D major
Andante
Menuetto: Allegretto
Allegretto in D major

The quartet was written for and dedicated to the King of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm II, an amateur cellist, and was written in a similar style to the quartets of Joseph Haydn. Mozart and his friend Karl Lichnowsky met the king in Potsdam in April 1789. Mozart played before the king in Berlin on 26 May 1789, then returned to Vienna.^[1]

This string quartet is a popular piece in the repertoire today. It is a piece written at the zenith of Mozart's powers as a chamber music composer. It is considered to be in a more relaxed style than the six quartets dedicated to Haydn. A typical performance lasts around 24 minutes.

The middle part of the song Mozart's House by UK based indie electronic band Clean Bandit samples the piece. The song reached number 17 in the UK Singles Chart on 21 April 2013.

References

↑ The New Grove Mozart. p. 154. ISBN 0-333-34199-6.

External links

String Quartet No. 21: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project

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String quartets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

K. 80/73f	No. 1 in G major, K. 80/73f (Lodi)

Milanese Quartets	No. 2 in D major, K. 155/134a No. 3 in G major, K. 156/143b No. 4 in C major, K. 157 No. 5 in F major, K. 158 No. 6 in B flat major, K. 159 No. 7 in E flat major, K. 160/159a

Viennese Quartets	No. 8 in F major, K. 168 No. 9 in A major, K. 169 No. 10 in C major, K. 170 No. 11 in E flat major, K. 171 No. 12 in B flat major, K. 172 No. 13 in D minor, K. 173

Haydn Quartets	No. 14 in G major, K. 387 (Spring) No. 15 in D minor, K. 421/417b No. 16 in E flat major, K. 428/421b No. 17 in B flat major, K. 458 (Hunt) No. 18 in A major, K. 464 (Drum) No. 19 in C major, K. 465 (Dissonance)

K. 499	No. 20 in D major, K. 499 (Hoffmeister)

Prussian Quartets	No. 21 in D major, K. 575 (The Violet) No. 22 in B flat major, K. 589 No. 23 in F major, K. 590

List of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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