Mozart - Piano Quartet E-flat Major K. 493

 

Mozart

( 1756~ 1791) 

 

Mozart Piano Quartet E-flat Major K. 493

 

Sara Etelävuori, violine
Dalia Stasevska, viola
Joona Pulkkinen, cello
Oskar Jezior, piano
(live at the Helsinki International Maj Lind Piano Competition 2012)

               

       Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major, K. 493, was written after Franz Anton Hoffmeister released Mozart from the obligation of writing three piano quartets.

 

Mozart received a commission for three quartets in 1785 from the publisher Franz Anton Hoffmeister. Hoffmeister thought the G minor Quartet (K. 478) was too difficult and that the public would not buy it, so he released Mozart from the obligation of completing the set. Nine months later, Mozart composed this quartet anyway.^[1]

 

The work is in three movements:

• I. Allegro, common time
• II. Larghetto, 3/8, A-flat major
• III. Allegretto, cut time

Vn:Frank Peter Zimmermann
Va:Tabea Zimmermann
Vc:Tilmann Wick
Pf:Christian Zacharias