String Quintet No. 1 (Mozart)

The String Quintet No. 1 in B flat major, K. 174, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in December 1773. Like all of Mozart's string quintets, it is a "viola quintet" in that it is scored for string quartet and an extra viola (two violins, two violas and basso.

Mozart composed this quintet a few months following the composition of the Viennese Quartets, K. 168-173 - indeed this work immediately followed that set in the Köchel catalogue.

Movements

The work is in standard four movement form:

References

Charles Rosen, "The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven", 1997, Norton

External links

Quintett in B: Score and critical report (German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
Performance of String Quintet No. 1 by the Orion String Quartet with Ida Kavafian (viola) from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in MP3 format

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String quintets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

No. 1 in B flat major, K. 174 No. 2 in C minor, K. 406/516b No. 3 in C major, K. 515 No. 4 in G minor, K. 516 No. 5 in D major, K. 593 No. 6 in E flat major, K. 614

List of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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