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Mozart String Quartet in C, K.465 "Dissonance"
In 1785 Mozart wrote a a set of six string quartets which he dedicated to his friend and mentor Joseph Haydn.
It is known that Mozart and Haydn (along with fellow composers Karl Dittersdorf and Johann Vanhall) participated together in several quartet performances. During these episodes Mozart was able to hear and grasp the style of Haydn's quartet writing, namely a musical discourse for four equal partners. It was on one of these occasions that Mozart unveiled the set of quartets which he had dedicated to Haydn. Upon hearing the music, Haydn remarked that Mozart "is the greatest composer known to me in person or by name. He has taste and, what is more, the most profound knowledge of composition."
The quartet in C Major K 465, the last in the set, is one of Mozart's finest. It is known as the “Dissonance”, because of the slow and ominous opening passage, whose harmony even today, presents a challenge to the listener.
Beethoven String Quartet Opus 18 No 1
The String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1 begins one of the greatest cycles of music in the entire Western Classical canon, the sixteen quartets of Beethoven spanning the whole of his creative life. Composed between 1798 and 1800, the six Op. 18 quartets show an astonishing mastery of the language of Haydn and Mozart, a language that Beethoven used nonetheless to express his own emerging personality and to demonstrate his own relentless innovative creativity. These are “classical” works in the truest sense: Beethoven’s closest “imitation” of Haydn and Mozart before he would revolutionize the genre with his next set, Op. 59.
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