Mozart - K. 465 - String Quartet No. 19 in C major "Dissonance" (1785) with beautiful landscapes
0Mozart composed this piece in 1785, when he was 29 years old.
Many people at the time of the publication of this piece thought that the slow, dissonant introduction of the first movement was wrong.
Joseph Haydn said that since the piece was composed by Mozart, it couldn't be wrong.
It is the last in the set of six quartets composed between 1782 and 1785 that he dedicated to Joseph Haydn. According to the catalogue of works Mozart began early the preceding year, the quartet was completed on January 14, 1785.
On the following day, Mozart and his father performed the quartet along with two others (K. 458, 464) for Haydn. Anton and Bartholomäus Tinti most likely played the other parts in the ensemble.
No patron commissioned these quartets, which makes them an unusually personal effort by the composer. In his dedication, he refers to the quartets as his "children" that he is sending "out into the great world". Mozart continues, "They are, it is true, the fruit of a long and laborious endeavour..."
Artaria & Company announced the publication of all six quartets on September 17, 1785 in the Wiener Zeitung.
Performers: Quartetto Italiano
Mozart - K. 465 - String Quartet No. 19 in C major "Dissonance" (1785):
I. Adagio-Allegro
II. Andante cantabile in F major [11:17]
III. Menuetto. Allegretto. (trio in C minor) [18:39]
IV. Allegro molto [24:10]