Milanese Quartets (Mozart)
set of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Milanese Quartets, K. 155–160, are a set of six string quartets composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in late 1772 and early 1773 when he was sixteen and seventeen years old. They are called 'Milanese' because Mozart composed them in Milan while he was working on his opera Lucio Silla. Before this set was composed, Mozart had written one earlier string quartet (K. 80/73f in 1770), so these six quartets are numbered from No. 2 to No. 7. The quartets are written in a plan of keys of D–G–C–F–B♭–E♭ following the circle of fourths.
All six quartets have only three movements. Four of the quartets (K. 156–159) have middle movements in the minor mode, one of which (K. 159) is, unusually, not a slow movement, but a fiery sonata–allegro. The finales are generally lightweight, whether in the form of minuets or rondos.
The sixth edition of the Köchel catalogue, published in 1964, amended the catalogue numbers of the first two quartets to K. 134a and 134b, respectively, and the last quartet to K. 159a.
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