☰ Ostinato

This volume brings together Mozarts youthful attempts at this later so central genre of the string quartet: the astonishing Lodi Quartet K. 80 by the only fourteen-year-old composer, the three Quartet-Divertimenti K. 136138 which are also readily played by chamber orchestras, and Mozarts first true string-quartet cycle K. 155160 which was composed during his third (north-)Italian journey in 1772/73. Mozarts cleanly written scores of all the compositions have been preserved so that the edition stands on a secure foundation. In his informative commentary, Wolf-Dieter Seiffert, the experienced Mozart editor at G. Henle Publishers, devotes a separate, comprehensive explanatory section to the well-known articulation problem dot or wedge. The Armida Quartet provided artistic input for this edition.

String Quartet "Lodi" G major KV 80 (73f)

Divertimento D major KV 136 (125a)

Divertimento B flat major KV 137 (125b)

Divertimento F major KV 138 (125c)

String Quartet D major KV 155 (134a)

String Quartet G major KV 156 (134b)

String Quartet C major KV 157