Mozart’s autograph manuscripts reveal he prioritised the practical considerations of performance over compositional authority, according to a musicologist from the University of Sheffield. Mozart’s ...

No one could accuse the Cuarteto Casals of being reticent in these three of the six quartets that Mozart dedicated to Haydn, the works in G: K387, E flat K428 and C K465. They launch into every ...

Mozart is well known for his exploits in the fields of opera, symphony, concerto, mass, chamber and solo music – in fact, just about any classical discipline available at the time was mastered by him, ...

‘Some of the most extraordinarily gawky music that [Mozart], so rarely in the slightest awkward, ever wrote.’ Thus Paul Griffiths (The String Quartet: A History; Thames and Hudson: 1983) on the six ...

Mozart complained that these three quartets – which may or may not have been commissioned by King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia – were the product of ‘exhausting labour’. You’d never guess it from ...

String Quartet No. 2 in D Major, K.155/ 134a: I. Allegro String Quartet No. 2 in D Major, K.155/ 134a: II. Andante String Quartet No. 2 in D Major, K.155/ 134a: III ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There is always a cachet in having four respected solo musicians playing together in a quartet. After violinist ...

String Quartet No. 11 in E-Flat Major, K. 171: I. Adagio String Quartet No. 11 in E-Flat Major, K. 171: II. Menuetto String Quartet No. 11 in E-Flat Major, K. 171: III. Andante String Quartet No. 11 ...

When I first heard the Verus String Quartet, it was at the ARD International Music Competition in 2008, where the then-two year old ensemble had impressed me throughout – especially with their ...

Musicians from the Australian National Academy of Music return to the Melbourne Recital Centre for another delightful soirée of music by 'mostly' Mozart. Two vibrant young string quartets perform ...