I've loved this piece for many years but this was my first time to view the score. I am overwhelmed. The chromaticism and interior modulations blended with his exquisite dialogue, sensitivity, and craftsmanship are truly a thing to behold.
agreed! i'm so grateful the score is here. While this is a beautiful performance, it's not the most balanced recording at times and the cello is a bit lost sometimes, and first violin overwhelms, so it's nice to have the score and see (and better hear) the intricacies!
I have been writing and composing electronic music for as long as I can remember, I even have a floppy disk FM Synth from the 90's! But that being said I see music VERY much in a series of my own spatial dimensions of my mind andf the constant blocks and grids and sinoid shapes combined, always moving along a "grid" it's how ive digested my music forever , to my dismay, I only recieved classical training recently, and none of it focused or even touched on the launguage and systax of sheet music. I am obsssesed with music however and have always been sorta upset that it was a great difficulty for me, and honest frustration that I seemingly couldnt grasp the inherent and very different way of "seeing" your music rather than hearing it. But for whatever reason tonight the rests and fortes allowed me to see the "incoming" tape head tape head or needle so to speak, sorta l.ike I could conduct in my mind. I can tell you though I noticed this in this very same evening your very thought just before I had the epiphany of the aforementioned revalation. And take it from me, that ALLL his pieces have some sort of cubic beauty in MIDI form on a virtual piano roll. ALL of them, this is not always so witrh composers as I have been fascinated by MIDI since the moment I could dial myself onto the internet, and it has become my career. He was a truly gifted human to do what he did in the conditions and sheer lack of positivity other than the LORD in his life. He died a pauper, but IMO not many will ever come close to combined volume and quality to his work, before people even did that kind of prolific music. Your appreciation for his keen eye, ear and heart clearly obssessed with beauty, I say thank you for letting me expierence that with you. Cheers fellow seeker!
I've loved this piece for many years but this was my first time to view the score. I am overwhelmed. The chromaticism and interior modulations blended with his exquisite dialogue, sensitivity, and craftsmanship are truly a thing to behold.
You can frame any page of a Mozart score and hang it in your dining room. The symmetry alone, even to those who cannot read music, is just gorgeous. Of course, it’s even better if you can follow the music.
One of the many things that I find so astonishing of Mozart's genius is that he had this piece (and all of his other works) fully composed in his mind before he wrote them down!
While the genius of Mozart is undeniable, the romanticized notion that he had all of his pieces fully fleshed out in his head is most definitely a myth. The Wikipedia article on "Mozart's compositional method" is a good starting point for further research on this topic.
Mozart composed with a keyboard like almost all composers who ever lived and made sketches - his letters corroborate this pretty well. Unfortunately, Constanze, her second husband von Nissen, and Niemetschek began to propagate a heavily mythologized version of the man shortly after his death, and pretty much all subsequent scholarship until the latter half of the 20th century took their word for it without question. What’s even more preposterous is that Constanze even went as far as to destroy sketches - I’d wager that a good chunk of the Requiem was destroyed as well in the process (except for the Amen fugue excerpt, which escaped the flames). It is especially tragic because Mozart’s fragments often reveal his experimental genius (think of the Minuet in D) much more than his finished compositions.
The whole quintet is a masterpiece. The first movement is a masterpiece. But that neapolitan sixth hinted by the first violin at 10:04 is the masterpiece of the masterpiece. Mozart doesn't employ neapolitan sixths that much, but oh boy how beautiful is it when he does.
Interesting to hear the first movement again with its famous "exception" to the rule... but it's a new theme, not to be confused with the second subject which is the relative major after all
There are a few pieces, actually, which have that unusual exception. I think it's kind of cool that they start the second theme in the "wrong" key but end up in the right one a few bars later. His 35th symphony also does something unusual in the transition to the second theme (kind of like he modulates to A major, then backs off to D major, then gets back to A major--first movement) and Beethoven's 8th symphony (first movement) also does it, as just a couple of famous examples.
Nicholas Thorn overall this piece is more orthodox in form and harmonic language than its C Major companion. Nevertheless it's not without musical interest, and it's a passionate, deeply moving work.
@@MaestroTJS Beethoven does this frequently. It's a treat to find in Mozart - that E Flat sidestep with a return to G Minor with a new theme thang was wild.
First time hearing this work. Some kind of Mozart academic /intellectual work. Sounds like Schubert in parts, 50 years early. (As said academic -- dissected by the futcha.) Super.
I agree. Parts a little Schubartian (is that a word). If only Mozart lived 20 more years... The rivallry between Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert would have pushed music further and further.
Isn't it stunning what Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven were able to express with their quartets? They were on a level of intimacy and innovation that cannot be found in their other respective compositions.
beware advertisers, if you advertise in the middle of a performance, I will NEVER buy any of your products, and I will encourage others not to buy your products. Your decision to place advertisements in the middle of a classical music performance demonstrates your complete lack of taste.
The only doubts on Beethoven is he couldn't write a 6th piano concerto. Sure maybe partially cause he was deaf but that just meant he couldn't perform it. I think the real reason is he exhausted every mozart idea in his piano concertos and didn't really know how to move the genre forward. Another problem I have with Beethoven is he has 9th symphony notes going back 15 to 20 years. It n Better be good if you spend that long! I think he waited a little and studied what his new contemporaries were doing and used continued tweaking it.
I love Beethoven , but he had 1/10 the talent of mozart, and he made up for in heart and studied Mozart and Haydn relentlessly his whole life. Mozarts memory was off the charts. That's one talent Beethoven didn't have. Mozart was a math genius like Beethoven. Mozart wrote better melodies, better fugues, better music for the human voice, arguably better string quartets, as Beethoven was still studying his Haydn quartets at the end of his life and says he was still scratching his head at them. If you can still get Beethoven scratching his head in string music, you're a fcking genius!!
The one thing Beethoven did do right even though it took too long was his 9th symphony. It's written in D Minor and it was his last major work. He wanted it to be his last major work, as his idol Mozart that he studied his whole life also wrote his last major work in you guessed it D minor! No one ever talks about that. Beethoven was giving a tribute to Mozsrt by writing in tbe genre he was good at, symphonic writing.. and picking d minor was not a coincidence.
Albert Einstein criticized the final allegro as not quite having the depth of the rest of the quintet; I think it should be played as a plaintive allegro with the major key hiding the sadness - that is - more slowly & painfully.
Brahms. Another man who appreciated Mozarts talent. Even going as far as to say Mozarts #24 piano concerto was way more advanced than Beethovens 4th and 5th piano concertos. Mozarts level of melodic, harmonic, writing was somewhat unmatched in history
Then try listening to Richter's poetic/lyrical/dramatic interpretation of Mozart's Sonata in A minor k310, I hope it changes your mind :) just keep listening to it until you find it sounding like a musical novel, it's really wonderous.
@@freepagan Oh, the concertos tho, I enjoy those, his works like Piano Sonata no. 16 aren't my type, I like the more darker sounding pieces, like concerto 20.
The turning point was when Mozarts dad died. I don't know if he was relieved, sad, inspired that he's on his own now or what. But when his dad died, it was master piece after masterpiece and he definitely put his level in another gear.
Last movement resolves the pathos of the first in the same way his operas do. Everyone is dancing around because the darkness is gone.
I've loved this piece for many years but this was my first time to view the score. I am overwhelmed. The chromaticism and interior modulations blended with his exquisite dialogue, sensitivity, and craftsmanship are truly a thing to behold.
'...a thing to behold' Indeed.
agreed! i'm so grateful the score is here. While this is a beautiful performance, it's not the most balanced recording at times and the cello is a bit lost sometimes, and first violin overwhelms, so it's nice to have the score and see (and better hear) the intricacies!
I have been writing and composing electronic music for as long as I can remember, I even have a floppy disk FM Synth from the 90's! But that being said I see music VERY much in a series of my own spatial dimensions of my mind andf the constant blocks and grids and sinoid shapes combined, always moving along a "grid" it's how ive digested my music forever , to my dismay, I only recieved classical training recently, and none of it focused or even touched on the launguage and systax of sheet music. I am obsssesed with music however and have always been sorta upset that it was a great difficulty for me, and honest frustration that I seemingly couldnt grasp the inherent and very different way of "seeing" your music rather than hearing it. But for whatever reason tonight the rests and fortes allowed me to see the "incoming" tape head tape head or needle so to speak, sorta l.ike I could conduct in my mind.
I can tell you though I noticed this in this very same evening your very thought just before I had the epiphany of the aforementioned revalation. And take it from me, that ALLL his pieces have some sort of cubic beauty in MIDI form on a virtual piano roll. ALL of them, this is not always so witrh composers as I have been fascinated by MIDI since the moment I could dial myself onto the internet, and it has become my career. He was a truly gifted human to do what he did in the conditions and sheer lack of positivity other than the LORD in his life. He died a pauper, but IMO not many will ever come close to combined volume and quality to his work, before people even did that kind of prolific music.
Your appreciation for his keen eye, ear and heart clearly obssessed with beauty, I say thank you for letting me expierence that with you. Cheers fellow seeker!
I've loved this piece for many years but this was my first time to view the score. I am overwhelmed. The chromaticism and interior modulations blended with his exquisite dialogue, sensitivity, and craftsmanship are truly a thing to behold.
I love it when the cello has some work to do.
You can frame any page of a Mozart score and hang it in your dining room. The symmetry alone, even to those who cannot read music, is just gorgeous. Of course, it’s even better if you can follow the music.
Yes. Much better when you can read the music. The interchange of parts among all of the instruments is sublime.
calm down and stop lying to yourself.
@@edeliteedelite1961he is right, lol
I find this piece extremely beautiful and entertaining. Its chromaticism is truly something to behold.
chromaticism very advanced for its time.
@@nickn2794 Yes.
@@therealrealludwigvanbeethoven Nevermind the chromaticism! Just look at how modern the rhythm is!
@@DanielFahimi But I like chromaticism!
Likewise.
One of the many things that I find so astonishing of Mozart's genius is that he had this piece (and all of his other works) fully composed in his mind before he wrote them down!
While the genius of Mozart is undeniable, the romanticized notion that he had all of his pieces fully fleshed out in his head is most definitely a myth. The Wikipedia article on "Mozart's compositional method" is a good starting point for further research on this topic.
Mozart composed with a keyboard like almost all composers who ever lived and made sketches - his letters corroborate this pretty well. Unfortunately, Constanze, her second husband von Nissen, and Niemetschek began to propagate a heavily mythologized version of the man shortly after his death, and pretty much all subsequent scholarship until the latter half of the 20th century took their word for it without question. What’s even more preposterous is that Constanze even went as far as to destroy sketches - I’d wager that a good chunk of the Requiem was destroyed as well in the process (except for the Amen fugue excerpt, which escaped the flames). It is especially tragic because Mozart’s fragments often reveal his experimental genius (think of the Minuet in D) much more than his finished compositions.
Melos Quartet was always our favourite, with Mozart, but with Schubert also.
Und Beethoven! Melos had such a passionate first violinist!!
Wonderful. Thanks for uploading all these quintets!
Mozart en todo su poder de dramática profundidad. Músicas como esta muestran los abismos y simas a que podemos llegar los humanos...
The whole quintet is a masterpiece. The first movement is a masterpiece.
But that neapolitan sixth hinted by the first violin at 10:04 is the masterpiece of the masterpiece.
Mozart doesn't employ neapolitan sixths that much, but oh boy how beautiful is it when he does.
Interesting to hear the first movement again with its famous "exception" to the rule... but it's a new theme, not to be confused with the second subject which is the relative major after all
There are a few pieces, actually, which have that unusual exception. I think it's kind of cool that they start the second theme in the "wrong" key but end up in the right one a few bars later. His 35th symphony also does something unusual in the transition to the second theme (kind of like he modulates to A major, then backs off to D major, then gets back to A major--first movement) and Beethoven's 8th symphony (first movement) also does it, as just a couple of famous examples.
Nicholas Thorn overall this piece is more orthodox in form and harmonic language than its C Major companion. Nevertheless it's not without musical interest, and it's a passionate, deeply moving work.
@@MaestroTJS Beethoven does this frequently. It's a treat to find in Mozart - that E Flat sidestep with a return to G Minor with a new theme thang was wild.
10:36 Minuetto Allegretto
10:54 repeat
11:12 Transitional Section
11:55 Repeat of Transitional Section
12:37 Trio
13:04 repeat
13:32 Minor Variation of Trio Section
15:58 End of Il. Menuetto & Trio. Allegretto
the 3rd movement is so beautiful!!!
Best quintet of ALL TIME
I like the second movement the most
@@homeschoolingfromtheheart9245 The most famous movement, in this work, is the first. By far.
Wonderful uploads! Now, eagerly awaiting 5th & 6th...
un capolavoro
The best part is 0:00 to 34:32
My favourite quintet
Oh this is so good
Thank you! This is a great resource.
Mozart avant-garde
이곡의 멜로디의 아름다움이란 말 할수없읍니다
그러나 한없은 슬픔을 간직하고 있씁니다
이런 음악을 모짜르트에게 의뢰하신 하나님의 뜻이 아니라면
결코 인간은 들어보지도 못했을것입니다
모짜르트는 단순한 천재가 아닙니다
그는 최고의 음악가입니다
The Mozart's quintets belong to the spiritual realm. Beauty in itself.
Solid. Tempo of the allegro slightly below my imagination, but their conversation is natural and full of life. Quite lovely really.
Perfection as it is.
The Melos were, and are, a sadly underrated quartet.
Many thanks to Anthony for his work in creating the channel.
Thank you so much!
First time hearing this work.
Some kind of Mozart academic /intellectual work. Sounds like Schubert in parts, 50 years early. (As said academic -- dissected by the futcha.)
Super.
Middle movts are wild. Not Schubert: Avant-garde pulse.
no schubert sounds like mozart. ;) both had melodic talent.
I agree. Parts a little Schubartian (is that a word). If only Mozart lived 20 more years... The rivallry between Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert would have pushed music further and further.
@@geniusrepairman1 Schubertian is a term I've heard.
Isn't it stunning what Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven were able to express with their quartets? They were on a level of intimacy and innovation that cannot be found in their other respective compositions.
Thanks for the upload AND the score!
Beautiful great composition,TYSM ♫♪♥
Who puts ads in the middle of a string quintet come on man..
This complex piece
beware advertisers, if you advertise in the middle of a performance, I will NEVER buy any of your products, and I will encourage others not to buy your products. Your decision to place advertisements in the middle of a classical music performance demonstrates your complete lack of taste.
Do they even have control. Or are the ads automatic?
Instead of writing this beautifully long complaint, why don't you install some adblockers to your pc?
SO TRUE!!!!!
@@edderek1948 what if someone prefers to enjoy it from his phone?
@@gareginasatryan6761 there are automatic, this comment is in vain, but I understand the frustration and I too agree
3:33 40th symphony 4th mvt
The beggining too
The cello could do with a bit more volume at times to match the violins and violas .
Perhaps influenced by Vanhal (minor-key symphonies)?
24:31 is way ahead of it's time.
The whole piece is!
In other words, Beethoven's first 30 works for strings.
The only doubts on Beethoven is he couldn't write a 6th piano concerto. Sure maybe partially cause he was deaf but that just meant he couldn't perform it. I think the real reason is he exhausted every mozart idea in his piano concertos and didn't really know how to move the genre forward. Another problem I have with Beethoven is he has 9th symphony notes going back 15 to 20 years. It n
Better be good if you spend that long! I think he waited a little and studied what his new contemporaries were doing and used continued tweaking it.
I love Beethoven , but he had 1/10 the talent of mozart, and he made up for in heart and studied Mozart and Haydn relentlessly his whole life. Mozarts memory was off the charts. That's one talent Beethoven didn't have. Mozart was a math genius like Beethoven. Mozart wrote better melodies, better fugues, better music for the human voice, arguably better string quartets, as Beethoven was still studying his Haydn quartets at the end of his life and says he was still scratching his head at them. If you can still get Beethoven scratching his head in string music, you're a fcking genius!!
The one thing Beethoven did do right even though it took too long was his 9th symphony. It's written in D Minor and it was his last major work. He wanted it to be his last major work, as his idol Mozart that he studied his whole life also wrote his last major work in you guessed it D minor! No one ever talks about that. Beethoven was giving a tribute to Mozsrt by writing in tbe genre he was good at, symphonic writing.. and picking d minor was not a coincidence.
I am hoping to find a quartet who want another viola, to play this. Nearly as much as I want to form my own quartet...
27:26 Allegro IV movement
Albert Einstein criticized the final allegro as not quite having the depth of the rest of the quintet; I think it should be played as a plaintive allegro with the major key hiding the sadness - that is - more slowly & painfully.
Alfred?
That's right - I thought I'd made a mistake
17:57 & 21:47
first movement development section
Yes. Perfectly beautiful.
27:05 allegro
Schubert 5th has similiarity.
Is there a conversation?.
A 21 personas les gusta salieri
13:32
24:34
Does somebody know how to avoid advertisements in the middle of the movements?
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wow the finale reminds me of brahms so much...
Brahms. Another man who appreciated Mozarts talent. Even going as far as to say Mozarts #24 piano concerto was way more advanced than Beethovens 4th and 5th piano concertos. Mozarts level of melodic, harmonic, writing was somewhat unmatched in history
What an insult to mozart.
Mozart's piano pieces never appealed to me, but the string compositions did, especially this piece as theres something so beautiful about it
Then try listening to Richter's poetic/lyrical/dramatic interpretation of Mozart's Sonata in A minor k310, I hope it changes your mind :) just keep listening to it until you find it sounding like a musical novel, it's really wonderous.
Have a go at piano concertos 20, 21, and 24. If those works don't change your mind, nothing will.
K-Popper wtf lol those are his best works
@@freepagan Oh, the concertos tho, I enjoy those, his works like Piano Sonata no. 16 aren't my type, I like the more darker sounding pieces, like concerto 20.
@@nunziomeatballs although it may be his best, everyone has their own pieces of music they enjoy, which also applies to all artists
Anyone else brought here by Huxley?
Yep.
Yep, reading Island right now and saw this quintet referenced in the chapter about psychedelic mushrooms.
Jamie Huxley?
Japanese Swat
Oh man, I love seeing the score but I can't stand the romanticism in the playing :(
Late Mozart works are romantic
The turning point was when Mozarts dad died. I don't know if he was relieved, sad, inspired that he's on his own now or what. But when his dad died, it was master piece after masterpiece and he definitely put his level in another gear.