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Background: After finishing the six quartets dedicated to Haydn and the stand-alone 'Hoffmeister' Quartet K499, Mozart waited three years before composing what turned out to be his last three quartets. In Berlin in 1789, King Frederick William II, a keen amateur cellist, commissioned from Mozart six easy keyboard sonatas for his daughter and six string quartets for himself.

Mozart began work on the quartets almost immediately. But, because of the illness of his wife, he was forced to curtail the king's commission and sell the three finished quartets, which we now know as Mozart's 'Prussian' Quartets, to get his hands on ready cash. Mozart was very conscious of having to please his patron by composing quartets with prominent cello parts and referred to the quartets as 'tiresome' works. Yet they are as adventurous as anything that Mozart wrote.

CATALOGUE NR: 2564608092
RECORD LABEL: Elatus
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 23-Feb-2004

COMPOSER: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
TRACKS: String Quartet Mo.18 in A K464. String Quartet No.19 in C K465 Dissonance. String Quartet No.21 in D K575. String Quartet No.22 in B flat K589. String Quartet No.23 in F K590.
ARTISTS: Alban Berg Qt      

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: originally released 1976 and 1978

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