Dissonance quartet

Opening bars of the first movement

The dissonance quartet is a string quartet in C major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , KV 465.

The string quartet, which Mozart completed on January 14, 1785, got its name from the first bars of the introductory Adagio with the cutting transverse positions and tonal frictions ( dissonances ) that were unusual for the time . Most of our contemporaries still lacked an understanding of this “modern” music. Because of the theme in the second movement, the quartet is also nicknamed "Caroline" among chamber musicians. The third movement consists of a cheerful minuet , followed by a trio in C minor. The fourth movement, like the opening movement, is written in sonata form, with the theme appearing in a minor variant at the beginning of the second part.

The dissonance quartet is the last of the six quartets composed between 1782 and 1785 and dedicated to Haydn (so-called “Haydn quartets”, KV 387, 421, 428, 458 , 464, 465). It is one of the "steepest peaks of European chamber music ever" (Jürgen Dohm).

Web links

• Notes on the Mutopia project
• Sheet music from the International Music Score Library Project

literature

• Jairo Moreno: Subjectivity, Interpretation, and Irony in Gottfried Weber's Analysis of Mozart's “Dissonance” Quartet . In: Music Theory Spectrum . Vol. 25, No. 1, 2003, ISSN  0195-6167 , pp. 99-120 ( abstract ).