Mozart’s Quintets Clarinet Quintet Clarinet Violin 1 Violin 2 Viola Cello Viola Quintet Violin 1 Violin 2 Viola 1 Viola 2 Cello Horn Quintet French horn Violin Viola 1 Viola 2 Cello Piano & Wind Quintet, K.452 Oboe Clarinet Bassoon French horn Piano Oboe Quartet Oboe Violin Viola Cello
Clarinet Basset horn
Clarinetist Anton Stadler (1753-1812)
Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581 (Richard Stoltzman & Tokyo Quartet) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4jdFz2AK6I I Allegro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aiQwxWM08I II Larghetto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbfZa66O_Qg III Menuetto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrpJpGm3ebQ IV Allegretto con variationi
WAM’s viola quintets composed between 1787 and 1791 K 515 in C major (completed 4/19/1787) K 516 in g minor (completed 5/16/1787) K 593 in D major (12/1790) K 614 in Eb major (4/1791)
Michael Haydn (1737-1806) Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
Anton Hoffmeister (1754-1812) Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831)
Viola Quintet Scoring Possibilities •3 upper strings (violins 1, 2, viola 1 •3 lower strings (violas 1, 2, cello) •Violin 1 and viola 1 in alternation as soloists, competitors •Duets between 2 violins or 2 violas •Viola 1 or 2 going higher than violins •Viola 1 or 2 playing lower than cello •Violin 1 as solo, others as accompanists •Duet between violin 1 and cello or viola 1 and cello •Any other combination of 1+4, 3+2, 2+2+1, etc.!
Quintet in G minor, K516 Allegro Menuetto. Allegretto. Trio. Adagio ma non troppo. (con sordino/with mutes) Adagio. Allegro
Beethoven Pushing Boundaries
Beethoven at 13? Anon. Bonn painter Birthplace in Bonn; Beethoven Museum now
Portrait of Beethoven as a young man by Carl Traugott Riedel (1769–1832)
Prince Franz von Lobkowitz, dedicatee of the 6 quartets of opus 18
Lobkowitz (1772-1816) Palace in Vienna
Lobkowicz Palace in Prague
Beethoven in 1803 by Christian Horneman 1804 portrait by Joseph Willibrord Mähler
Count Razumovsky’s (1752-1836) Palace in Vienna
Razumovsky Palace, another view
Beethoven in 1815, painting by Joseph Willibrord Mähler
1820 Portrait by Joseph Danhauer Ignaz Schuppanzigh (1776-1830) Karl Holz (1798-1858)
Drawing from Beethoven Haus by Josef Danhauser
Cellist Joseph Linke
Drawing by August Klober 1818
Kneisel Quartet