String Quintet No. 5 (Mozart)

The String Quintet No. 5 in D major, K. 593 was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1790. 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 cello.

Movements

The work is in standard four movement form:

I. Larghetto - Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Menuetto: Allegretto
IV. Allegro

According to the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe,^[1] the finale was printed, and known for some time, in an inauthentic edition, in which its main theme, originally a descending chromatic scale fragment, was replaced in most of its appearances in the movement by a more complicated zigzag ("Zickzackform") themelet.

References

↑ Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1991). Ernst Fritz Schmid, ed. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke: in Verbindung mit die Mozartstädten, Augsburg, Salzburg und Wien: Werkausgabe in 20 Bänden. Serie VIII: Kammermusik. Band 19: Streichquintette. Kritischer Bericht. Kassel: Bärenreiter. p. 74. ISBN 3-7618-5910-4.

External links

Quintett in D: Score and critical report (German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
String Quintet No. 5: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
Performance by the Orion String Quartet and 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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