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Mozart's 8th Quartet K.168.4.Allegro(fugue) Talich Quartet

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Uploaded by on Oct 23, 2008

Between mid-July and the end of September 1773, six months after the six "Milan Quartets", 17-year-old Mozart composed another set of six string quartets. Here is the fourth and final movement of the first Vienna quartet performed by the amazing Talich quartet.

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  • Fun fugue. Very bach. Lots of eighth notes. But development is pure Mozart (maybe a touch of Handel thrown in).

  • Very interesting comment! Mozart didn't really discover Bach until much later in life - and what a shock it was for him! - but I think he definitely knew some works by Händel. I know his primary source of inspiration for his first quartets (and all of them actually) was Haydn's quartets, and there are some pretty brilliant fugues in some of them I believe; but it's true that the fugue was in decline and already seen as an archaic form by many musicians (mainly because they couldn't do one).

  • thanks for posting this! it's really going to help our ensemble with the style of this piece :P

  • You're very welcome! :-)

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  • Awesome fugue. To think this was Mozart before he really studied the fugues of Bach and Handel. His main influence at this point was Michael Haydn (an excellent composer in his own right who wrote some evocative, if less technically impressive, fugues).

  • I am playing this in a quartet at a music camp and i think it will work out really well!

    I am nervous though!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Just yesterday i saw the Talich Quartet. One word: "Flawless".

  • we played this with my quartet just today...i kept on saying "play E natural, not flat..." when we played it....we all played E FLAT...

  • Thanks. Sounded like just a ridiculously fast tempo.

    I was playing around with this piece yesterday and it turns out it works quite well at a slower tempo as well.

  • btw its not eighth notes...its 16th....

  • Ahh! I'm in a quartet and we're playing this! (:

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