• Source: Viennese Quartets (Mozart)

The six string quartets, K. 168–173, were composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in late 1773 in Vienna. These are popularly known as the Viennese Quartets. Mozart may have hoped to have them published at the time, but they were published only posthumously by Johann André in 1801 as Mozart's Op. 94.
These quartets represent a considerable advance on the Milanese Quartets from less than a year before. Each contains four movements, including minuets and trios. Mozart had been exposed to recently published quartets by Joseph Haydn (Opp. 9 and 17) and was incorporating many of their elements.




No. 8 in F major, K. 168


Allegro
Andante in F minor
Menuetto
Allegro
The first movement is in sonata form. The slow movement in F minor is a triple-meter canon on the familiar theme also used in the finale of Haydn's Op. 20 No. 5 quartet in the same key, and that Mozart would much later use in the "Kyrie" from his Requiem. The third movement is in ternary form, with a minuet and trio. The finale is a fugue which is also similar to one of the finales of Op. 20, this time the A major quartet (No. 6).




No. 9 in A major, K. 169


Molto allegro
Andante in D major
Menuetto
Rondeaux (Allegro)




No. 10 in C major, K. 170


Andante (theme and four variations)
Menuetto
Un poco adagio in G major
Rondeaux (Allegro)
The opening movement is a theme and four variations with a theme that resembles the variation theme used in Haydn's Quartet Op. 9, No. 5, in B-flat. The second phrase of the slow movement contains the opening theme of Haydn's Op. 9, No. 4, in D minor.




No. 11 in E-flat major, K. 171


Adagio – Allegro assai – Adagio
Menuetto
Andante in C minor
Allegro assai




No. 12 in B-flat major, K. 172


Allegro spiritoso
Adagio in E-flat major
Menuetto
Allegro assai




No. 13 in D minor, K. 173


Allegro ma molto moderato
Andantino grazioso in D major
Menuetto
Allegro
The beginning of the minuet is similar to, and based on, the minuet from Haydn's Op. 9, No. 4, in D minor. The finale is a fugue whose subject begins with a descending chromatic fourth.




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External links



Quartett in F KV 168: Score and critical report (in German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe

Quartett in A KV 169: Score and critical report (in German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe

Quartett in C KV 170: Score and critical report (in German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe

Quartett in Es KV 171: Score and critical report (in German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe

Quartett in B KV 172: Score and critical report (in German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe

Quartett in d KV 173: Score and critical report (in German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
String Quartet No. 8, String Quartet No. 9, String Quartet No. 10, String Quartet No. 11, String Quartet No. 12, String Quartet No. 13: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project

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