Baerenreiter Verlag The Thirteen Early String Quartets - Mozart - Study Score, Urtext Edition, Anthology - String Quartet The Thirteen Early String Quartets - Mozart - Study Score, Urtext Edition, Anthology - String Quartet

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Editor: Karl Heinz Fussl / Wolfgang Plath / Wolfgang Rehm
Format: Study score, Urtext edition, Anthology
Instrumentation: String quartet

This first ever study score of Mozart's Thirteen Early String Quartets is based on the reliable Urtext of the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe. lt is intended not only for performers utilizing it as a reference score for the Barenreiter performing editions in parts (BA 4847, BA 4848, BA 4849 and BA 4850), but also for musicians interested in the development of Mozart as a composer in the genre of the string quartet. Our Barenreiter Classics Study Score begins With Mozart's first quartet the Lodi" Quartet, K. 80 (73f), includes two ltalian cycles K.155-160 and K.168-l73, and ends with the isolated Menuett K. 68a. The informative Preface by Wolfgang Rehm, describes the influence on Mozart of Italian chamber music at this time and provides detailed information regarding the sources and other compositions written by Mozart during this period.