List of chamber music works by Mozart without piano
In contrast to those of Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's chamber music works are not so much the focus of his work. But he too wrote works in the field of string quartets and violin sonatas that are among the most frequently performed of their genre.
String duos and trios
Duo for violin and viola in G major KV 423 (1783)
- Allegro
- adagio
- Rondeau: Allegro
Duo for violin and viola in B flat major KV 424 (1783)
- Adagio - Allegro
- Andante cantabile
- Subject con Variazioni: Andante grazioso
Sonata (Trio) for 2 violins and bass (violoncello) in B flat major KV 266 (1777)
- adagio
- Menuetto
Divertimento (string trio) for violin, viola and violoncello in E flat major KV 563 (1788)
- Allegro
- adagio
- Menuetto (Allegretto) - Trio
- Andante
- Menuetto (Allegretto) - Trio I - Trio II
- Allegro
Trio in G major KV 562e (= Anh.66) (1788) (fragment)
- Allegro
Arrangements: Trios in G major and B major based on the duos KV 423 and 424
- for 2 violins (or violin & viola) and violoncello by Gerhard Present (2012)
String quartets
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote 23 string quartets. Additionally three Divertimenti KV 136-138. In his six Haydn quartets in particular , he ties in with Haydn's role model.
Early quartets
String Quartet in G major KV 80 (73f) "Lodi Quartet" (1770, the Rondeau 1773/74)
- adagio
- Allegro
- Menuetto
- Rondeau [Allegro]
Divertimento in D major KV 136 (125a) (1772)
- Allegro
- Andante
- Presto
Divertimento in B flat major KV 137 (125b) (1772)
- Andante
- Allegro di molto
- Allegro assai
Divertimento in F major KV 138 (125c) (1772)
- [Allegro]
- Andante
- [Presto]
Six Milanese quartets
String Quartet in D major KV 155 (134a) (1772) 1st Milan Quartet
- [Allegro]
- Andante
- Molto allegro
String Quartet in G major KV 156 (134b) (1772) 2nd Milan Quartet
- Presto
- adagio
- Tempo di menuetto
String Quartet in C major KV 157 (1772/73) 3rd Milan Quartet
- [Allegro]
- Andante
- Presto
String Quartet in F major KV 158 (1772/73) 4th Milan Quartet
- Allegro
- Andante un poco Allegretto
- Tempo di menuetto
String Quartet in B flat major, K. 159 5th Milan Quartet
- Andante
- Allegro
- Rondo: Allegro grazioso
String Quartet in E flat major KV 160 (159a) (1773) 6th Milan Quartet
- Allegro
- Un poco adagio
- Presto
Six Viennese quartets
String Quartet in F major KV 168 (1773) 1st Viennese Quartet
- Allegro
- Andante
- Menuetto Trio
- Allegro
String Quartet in A major KV 169 (1773) 2nd Viennese Quartet
- Molto Allegro
- Andante
- Menuetto Trio
- Rondeaux: Allegro
String Quartet in C major KV 170 (1773) 3rd Viennese Quartet
- Andante [theme & variations]
- Menuetto Trio
- Un poco adagio
- Rondeaux: Allegro
String Quartet in E flat major KV 171 (1773) 4th Viennese Quartet
- Adagio - Allegro assai
- Menuetto Trio
- Andante
- Allegro assai
String Quartet in B flat major KV 172 (1773) 5th Vienna Quartet
- [Allegro spiritoso]
- adagio
- Menuetto Trio
- Allegro assai
String Quartet in D minor KV 173 (1773) 6th Vienna Quartet
- Allegro ma molto moderato
- Andante grazioso
- Menuetto Trio
- Allegro
The six Haydn quartets
The six quartets, composed between 1782 and 1785 and dedicated to Joseph Haydn , were strongly inspired by his quartets op.33 .
String Quartet in G major KV 387 (1782) 1st Haydn Quartet
- Allegro vivace assai
- Menuetto: Allegro
- Andante cantabile
- Molto Allegro
String Quartet in D minor KV 421 (1783) 2nd Haydn Quartet
- Allegro moderato
- Andante
- Menuetto. Allegretto
- Allegretto ma non troppo - Più allegro
String quartet in E flat major KV 428 (1783) 3rd Haydn Quartet
- Allegro non troppo
- Andante con moto
- Allegretto
- Allegro vivace
- This quartet is relatively unusual - the main theme of the first movement is performed in unison and consists of an octave jump followed by a tritone . In the meditative second movement, the theme (actually a series of broken chords) is introduced in the lower register and then taken over by the other voices. The last sentence is rich in surprising phrases.
String quartet “ Jagd-Quartett ” in B flat major, KV 458 (1783) 4th Haydn Quartet
- Allegro vivace assai
- Menuetto. Moderato
- adagio
- Allegro assai
String Quartet in A major KV 464 (1785) 5th Haydn Quartet
- Allegro
- Menuetto
- Andante
- Allegro non troppo
String Quartet in C major “ Dissonance Quartet ” KV 465 (1783) 6th Haydn Quartet
- Adagio - Allegro
- Andante cantabile
- Minuet - Allegro
- Allegro molto
- The epithet alludes to the - at the time unusual - transverse positions in the Adagio introduction to the first movement. Contemporaries even suspected that the dissonances were typographical errors.
String Quartet in D major "Hoffmeister Quartet" KV 499 (1786)
- Allegretto
- Menuetto: Allegretto Trio
- adagio
- Allegro
- The epithet goes back to the publisher of the Vienna first edition, Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1786).
The Prussian Quartets
String Quartet in D major KV 575 (1789) 1st Prussian Quartet
- Allegretto
- Andante
- Menuetto: Allegretto
- Allegretto
String Quartet in B flat major, K. 589 (1790) 2nd Prussian Quartet
- Allegro
- Larghetto
- Menuetto: Moderato
- Allegro assai
String Quartet in F major KV 590 (1790) 3rd Prussian Quartet
- Allegro moderato
- Andante
- Menuetto: Allegretto
- Allegro
Edits
Fantasy quartet in D - arrangement of 4 piano pieces by Mozart for string quartet by Gerhard Present
- Fantasy in D - KV 397
- Minuet in D - KV 355
- Adagio in b - KV 540
- Rondo in D - KV 485
String quintets
String Quintet No.1 in B flat major KV 174 (1773)
- Allegro moderato
- adagio
- Menuetto ma allegro
- Allegro
String quintet No. 2 in C minor KV 406 (1782 / according to new knowledge spring 1787 (KV 516b), arrangement of the wind serenade KV 388)
- Allegro
- Andante
- Menuetto in canone - Trio in canone al rovescio - Menuetto
- Allegro
String Quintet No.3 in C major KV 515 (1787)
- Allegro
- Menuetto. Allegretto
- Andante
- Allegro
String Quintet No.4 in G minor KV 516 (1787)
- Allegro
- Menuetto. Allegretto
- Adagio ma non troppo
- Adagio - Allegro
String Quintet No.5 in D major KV 593 (1790)
- Larghetto - Allegro - Larghetto - Primo Tempo
- adagio
- Menuetto. Allegretto Trio
- Final. Allegro
String Quintet No.6 in E flat major KV 614 (1791)
- Allegro di molto
- Andante
- Menuetto. Allegretto Trio
- Allegro
Chamber music for wind instrument and strings
Quartet for flute and string trio in D major, K. 285 (1777)
- Allegro
- adagio
- rondeau
Quartet for flute and string trio in C major KV 285b (= Anh. 171) (1778)
- Allegro
- Theme. Andantino - Var. I-IV
Quartet for flute and string trio in G major KV 285a (1778)
- Andante
- Tempo di menuetto
Sonata for Bassoon and Violoncello in B flat major KV 292 (1775)
- Allegro
- Andante
- Rondo - Allegro
Quartet for flute and string trio in A major KV 298 (1778)
- Theme. Andante - Var I-IV
- Menuetto Trio
- Rondeau. Allegretto grazioso
Quartet for oboe and string trio in F major KV 370 (1781)
- Allegro
- adagio
- Rondeau. Allegro
Horn quintet in E flat major (horn, violin, 2 violas and violoncello) KV 407 (1782)
- Allegro
- Andante
- Rondo. Allegro
Quintet for clarinet and string quartet in A major KV 581 (1789) "Stadler-Quintet"
- Allegro
- Larghetto
- Menuetto - Trio I - Trio II
- Allegretto con variazioni
Chamber music for wind ensembles
Serenade for eight wind instruments in C minor KV 388 " Nacht-Musique " (was arranged by Mozart for the string quintet KV 406)
- Allegro
- Andante
- Menuetto in canone - Trio in canone al rovescio - Menuetto
- Allegro
Serenade No. 10 for twelve wind instruments and double bass in B flat major KV 361 (1782) " Gran Partita "
- Largo - Allegro Molto
- Menuetto - Trio I – II
- adagio
- Menuetto (Allegretto) Trio I – II
- Romance (Adagio-Allegretto-Adagio)
- Theme (Andante) with variations
- Finale (Molto Allegro)