Mozart String Quartet No 19: "Dissonance"

The String Quartet No.465 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, nicknamed "Dissonance" on account of its unusual slow introduction, is perhaps the most famous of his quartets. It is the last in the set of six quartets composed between 1782 and 1785 that he dedicated to Joseph Haydn.
As is normal with Mozart's later quartets, it is in four movements:
Adagio-Allegro
Andante cantabile in F major
Menuetto. Allegro. (C major, trio in C minor)
Allegro molto
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Haydn paid homage to the opening 22 bars of this Quartet which Mozart had later dedicated to him (1785) by quoting pieces of the ‘dissonance’ sections in his Freemasonic ‘Ordo ab Chao’ (‘Order out of Chaos’) opening to his great oratorio of 1795-1796 Die Schoepfung (‘The Creation’) though when the Haydn Quartets were being circulated in Central Europe (1786-1789) more than one subscriber took the printed score of the ‘dissonance’ section of K. 465 and tore it into pieces presum’d to be (understandably) ‘full of printers’ errors’ - all Haydn had to say on the matter was ‘If Mozart took the trouble to write down the exact notes we are reading on this page, he would have had very-very good reasons for doing so-he never made a move without much pre-thought put behind it…’ And Haydn was absolutely right !

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